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Advances in Colour Literacy, Volume 1

Official Book Launch

Advances in Colour Literacy, Volume 1 is published — and now it is time to meet the authors.

On 25 September, the Colour Literacy Project and the AIC Study Group on Colour Education invite you to the official online launch of the first volume of the Advances in Colour Literacy series. The event brings together the authors for a live roundtable conversation, open to anyone who wants to attend.

Advances in Colour Literacy is a book series published by the Colour Literacy Project, dedicated to expanding colour knowledge across education, research, and professional practice. Volume 1 is edited by Ingrid Calvo Ivanovic and includes contributions from Andrew Richard Parker, Valtteri Arstila, David J. C. Briggs, Harald Arnkil, José Luis Caivano, Paul Green-Armytage, Ellen Divers, Robert Hirschler, Andreas Schwarz, Judith Mottram, Dominique Grisard, and Ingrid Calvo Ivanovic.

The session is structured as a genuine dialogue, not a series of presentations:

• 10:00 – 10:10 · Introduction to the book and the series
• 10:10 – 10:40 · Roundtable conversation with all authors, guided by questions on colour literacy from the CLP team
• 10:40 – 11:15 · Moderated Q&A — your questions, answered by the authors
• 11:15 – 11:20 · Closing

The authors bring together expertise from evolutionary biology, philosophy of perception, colour science, architecture, gender studies, and design education.

Come prepared!

The book is open access and free to download at colourliteracy.org. We encourage you to read it — or at least one or two chapters that connect with your own work or curiosity — before the event. The Q&A session is audience-driven: the more you have engaged with the book, the more interesting the conversation will be.

Bring your questions. Bring your curiosity. Bring what the book made you think about.

A Look Inside Color Research & Application:

Collocations of Basic Color Terms and Emotion Terms in Spanish Versus Chinese

Emotions are internal states that can be difficult to describe verbally. Worldwide, emotions are frequently conveyed, either metonymically or metaphorically, by color terms, although differences in color-emotion associations are observed cross- linguistically and cross-culturally. In this paper, we adopted a corpus-based approach to this issue and searched for collocations in Spanish versus Chinese of 13 color terms (the basic color terms in Spanish) and the 20 basic emotion terms (from the Geneve Emotion Wheel).

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A Look Inside Our Quarterly:

Blue Morphos Have a Cool Color

I first encountered the blue morpho in Kai Kupferschmidt’s book, Blue: In Search of Nature’s Rarest Color, which I reviewed in Issue 504 of ISCC News. There I learned about a tricky problem that the butterfly appears to have solved through natural selection. Interference patterns can lead to brilliant structural colors, but the color you see generally depends on the angles of illumination and viewing.

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