Working towards openness & accessibility
The Unlocking History research group is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion. Letterlocking practices crossed the world over many hundreds of years, and letterlocking was used by people from an enormous range of backgrounds and cultures. We seek to tell a truly global story. In 2020, we established an internal fund to support research into equitable research and teaching practices, so that we can continue to build them into the heart of the project.
The Unlocking History research group values linguistic diversity. Please see our initiative to translate the Letterlocking definition.
The Unlocking History team is developed a system to make our resources accessible. Please check back for updates.
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/datavers/whatisletterlocking
Foldables
Our foldable models have been developed so that you can try letterlocking at home, using pre-prepared guidelines that enable you to make replica models of the letters we studied for this article. Red and blue lines indicate whether creases are “mountain” or “valley”. The book contains step-by-step instructions for how to fold each one, and you can follow along with videos on our YouTube and Vimeo channels.