I'm currently involved in an art installation at King's College London, "Paths to Utopia" (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/Cultural/newsandviews/newsrecords/160519-Paths-to-Utopia.aspx). Our project within the installation is "Nightschool on Anarres" (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/Cultural-Institute/Utopia2016/Commissions/Night-School.aspx). If you are in London over the Summer I can recommend visiting the installation.

My role in the project has been to create the language, Pravic, to be as faithful as possible to Ursula Le Guin's description in “The Dispossessed”. What I came up with is given here: http://martinedwardes.webplus.net/pravic/. I will be giving a series of talks during July and August, ostensibly to teach Pravic, but mainly to discuss the way language can affect thought (yes, I'm a neo-relativist).

This is something quite different for me, my Making of Language BA module is delivered to an audience held captive by grade-neediness; and it's about them constructing a language, not me trying to sell my own homemade product. Any suggestions of how I should approach this teaching experience will be gratefully received.

Martin Edwardes

martin.edwardes@btopenworld.com