Welcome to Multilingual Streets

Multilingual Streets: translating and curating the linguistic landscape’ is a research project which takes the linguistic landscape, or, visible languages in public space, as its starting point. 

Fresh Metro Artwork
‘Fresh Metro’ by Louise Atkinson

Funding

Multilingual Streets was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)’s ‘Open World Research Initiative’ (OWRI) ‘Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community: Multilingual Communities’ programme 2019-2021. The project evolved from a smaller-scale research and engagement project, LangScape Curators, which received funding from the University of Leeds Educational Engagement Social Sciences Cluster 2015-2018.