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Burlina, E. Ya. "URBAN CHRONOTOPE – URBAN SEMIOTICS. FLORENCE AND SAINT PETERSBURG." Izvestiya of the Samara Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Social, Humanitarian, Medicobiological Sciences 22, no. 74 (2020): 77–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.37313/2413-9645-2020-22-74-77-84.
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In this paper author presents an interdisciplinary interaction betweeen semiotics and chronotopy. The paper refers to the great cities of Renaissance and the Russian cities like Saint Petersburg. As M. M. Bakhtin formulated, "genre is cultural memory". According to the author, the structural and spatiotemporal memory lies in the core not only of artistic works, but of urban structurestoo.As an instruments of structural and semiotic analysis of city, the terms of chronotope and chronotopy were coined. The followers of M. M. Bakhtin, the structuralists and the semeiologists of the Yu. M. Lotman Semiotic School now agree on this point. In 1990s, one of the founders of Russian semiotics, Yu. M. Lotman came to the conclusion that new spatiotemporal modes can crystallize and spiritually develop citizens. This concept formed the basis of the first part of the paper. The second part considers practical opportunities of semiotics and urban chronotopy in dialogue with students during classes on such humanities subjects as philosophy, global art culture, aestetics e.t.c. According to the author, urban chronotope and urban semiotics are different and complementary instruments of scientific comprehension and development of cities.
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Cakaric, Jasenka. "Paradigm of the urban space semiotics." Facta universitatis - series: Architecture and Civil Engineering 15, no. 2 (2017): 167–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/fuace160517012c.
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The urban space unites two parallel dimensions in its substance - the inner human one and the real physical one. While interpreting this thesis, we proceed from the semiotic perspective via an analysis of the source of the town's semiotics by approaches which allow creation of a global basis of pertinence in the comprehension of the urban space as a context which unites reality and ideas. In that way, searching for their place and function in the system of symbols, that is, determining the elements which make the semiotic structure of the town and influence man's perception of material environment is the main task of this paper. The analysis has shown that the presence of urban signs leaves its spatial imprint on the authentic identity of the physical structure, but that there are also contemplative elements which found the notion of town. What we are talking about here are the lifestyle, culture, tradition, social relations, politics, ideology, technical praxis, technological achievements, economic trends, social practices. It is precisely the synergy impacts of these elements and geometric appearances of the physical structure that, as we have concluded, make the semiotic structure of the urban space. Man perceives this synergy by means of strength of his own being, while articulations of the functional spaces and signs of the town's architecture, each of them marked by their inner energy, enable him to reassert himself as a spiritual being. We are convinced that the approach to the reflections about the urban space semiotics that has been shown in this paper, can make a contribution to the understanding of the general urban experience, as well as a contribution to the general theory of urban design.
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Silchenkova, Lyudmila, Sergey Likhachev, Natalya Desyaeva, Tatyana Likhacheva, and Natalia Sheveleva. "Learning opportunities of urban space semiotics." SHS Web of Conferences 98 (2021): 03008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20219803008.
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The article deals with the study of the semiotic opportunities of the urban space as a learning tool. The authors analyze the literature on urban research and point to the significant interest of the education system in various manifestations of urban life: architectural, design, environmental, adaptational, etc. The notion of “city” in numerous studies usually means an environment full of different natural objects and structures. The latter should include houses, sculptural and architectural monuments, specially organized urban space, for example, the city center and its peripheral area marked with certain signs. Researchers insist that a city is a complex semiotic space in which a citizen lives and navigates. Various types of signs are actively involved in the organization of urban life (Ch. Peirce). Thus, iconic signs make it easy to navigate the city without resorting to decoding symbolic signs, i.e. without reading the signs and names of, for example, stores: a boot hanging next to the signboard allows one to determine that the citizen is in front of a shoe store. A child navigates such signs easily, however, participating in orienting activities on par with adults. The purpose of this article is to consider the city learning opportunities for helping young children to form the semiotic activity which is included in various types of educational activities. The novelty of the research presented in the article is confirmed by the lack of scientific publications that directly consider the educational opportunities of urban space semiotics. The main research method is the code reconstruction method. The figure of a child plays an important role in the study. The child acts as the central subject of perception of the city-textbook. Following the idea of the most prominent researchers of semiotics, the authors regard the city as a text for a child to read. The analytical part of the article is based on recording children’s impressions of the urban text.
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Lagopoulos, Alexandros Ph, and Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou. "Semiotics, culture and space." Sign Systems Studies 42, no. 4 (December 30, 2014): 435–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2014.42.4.02.
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Space, in the environmental sense, holds a rather marginal position in semiotics. We shall try, however, to show in this paper that its importance is greater than thought previously, not only because it may establish one of the main sub-fields of semiotic research, but also because it has repercussions on other semiotic systems and even semiotic theory as such. We start by reviewing the main positions of the Theses of the Tartu-Moscow School and compare them to Lotman’s concept of the semiosphere. We conclude that a sociologically sound framework for culture is missing and try to demonstrate that culture is not the only factor composing a society, but there also exists a concept of a material, extra-semiotic society. This framework is systematically developed in relation to geographical space in our second section. We examine the place of space in semiotics according to two different axes of analysis. Th e first axis, discussed in our third section, corresponds to the semiotics of (geographical) space. We approach this field from two different perspectives. The first perspective is the direct study of urban space as a text, that is, it is focused on space-as-text. Three case studies are discussed, all drawn from pre-capitalist societies: the semiotic urban model in ancient Greece, the Ethiopian military camp and the spatial organization of the traditional Libyan oases. To the second perspective corresponds the semiotic study of the geographical spaces constructed by literary texts, that is, space-in-text. Here, we discuss two case studies: the ideal Platonic city and the medieval Arthurian courtly romances. These analyses are followed by an overview of the semiotics of space in pre-capitalist societies, to which we compare Lotman’s views.The second axis, discussed in our fourth section, concerns the importance of space for semiotic theory. We show that space can serve as a tool for the analysis of texts from other semiotic systems and focus on the use of space by different spatial metalanguages.
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Zamyatin, Dmitry N. "HETERO-TEXTUALITY AND CO-SPATIALITY: FROM THE SEMIOTICS OF THE CITY TO THE TRANS-SEMIOTICS OF THE POST-CITY." Ural Historical Journal 70, no. 1 (2021): 70–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.30759/1728-9718-2021-1(70)-70-79.
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Literary texts can be considered as the most attractive research material for analyzing the key features of both the semiotics of the city as a whole and the semiotics of individual cities, to which many works of art are devoted. The urban space of Modernity as a result of the processes of powerful semiotization can be considered as both textual and intertextual. The intertextuality of Modern urban spaces presupposes sets of “floating” topological signifiers corresponding to similar sets of “floating” topological signs. In the traditional semiotics of the city, the existence of two realities is assumed — the “real” reality and the “semiotic” reality, between which clear logical correspondences and/or relations can be observed and analyzed. The appearance of non-classical/post-classical urban narratives focused on the problems of dis-communication at the beginning of the 20th century became one of the important signs of the primary formation of the post-city and post-urbanism phenomena. The post-city is not a text and can not be regarded as a text; at the same time, it can generate separate texts that are not related to each other in any way. Post-urban texts, which are the communicative results of specific co-spatialities, remain local “flashes” that do not form a single text or meta-text (super-text). Hetero-textuality is a phenomenon of post-urban reality, which is characterized by the coexistence, as a rule, of texts that do not correlate with each other, relating to certain stable urban loci. Trans-semiotics in general context is understood as the study of any texts that involve the creation of sign-symbolic breaks or “gaps” with any other potentially possible correlating texts in the process of signification. Trans-semiotics of post-cities are studies of (literary) texts that involve the creation of sign-symbolic breaks or “gaps” with any other potentially possible correlating texts related to a particular urban locus in the process of signifying any urban loci. The post-city heterostructuality can be considered as the co-spatiality of mutually exclusive texts corresponding to “non-seeing” post-city loci. Post-urban trans-semiotics in the course of their development form a kind of “dark zones” that reject or neutralize any attempt at any semiotic interpretation.
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Касаткина, С. С. "A SPATIAL SEMIOTICS OF ANCIENT URBAN AREAS AS A RESOURCE FOR SOCIOCULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF A REGION AT THE EXAMPLE OF THE VOLOGDA REGION." Вестник Рязанского государственного университета имени С.А. Есенина, no. 1(66) (June 8, 2020): 135–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.37724/rsu.2020.66.1.017.
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В статье предложен дискурс определения понятия «древний город», введено авторское значение понятия «семиотическое пространство древнего города», рассмотрены семиокоды города как элементы урбосферы. В исследовании применены историко-культурный, визуально-семиотический методы, обоснован системно-семиотический подход изучения древнего города, связанный с пониманием трех элементов урбосферы: концепта (историческое значение древнего города), структуры (социальная жизнь горожан) и субстрата (физическое и ментальное пространство — городской ландшафт). Основу данной публикации составил анализ субстратных значений древнего города как ресурса его развития, основанный на изучении семиотических пространств городов Вологодской области. Выявлено, что историческая память города, его материальный и ментальный ландшафт и уникальный визуальный образ являются ключевыми семиокодами древних поселений, на основе которых возможно эффективное конструирование социокультурного развития любого региона страны. Автор предлагает перспективные направления работы с пространством старинных городов России на примере внимания к семиотическому пространству городов Вологодской области, способствующие активному социокультурному развитию их территорий. The article defines the concept of “ancient urban areas” and comments on the author’s perception of spatial semiotics of ancient settlements. It also treats urban semiotic conventions as elements of urban space. The research employs historical-cultural, visual-semiotic and systemic-semiotic approaches in order to investigate such elements of urban space as concepts (history of ancient urban areas), structures (urban dwellers’ social life), and substrates (physical and mental space, urban landscape). The article analyzes the substrate of ancient settlements as a resource for sociocultural development based on the investigation of spatial semiotics of urban areas of the Vologda Region. The article maintains that the historical memory of an urban area, its material and mental landscape, its unique visual image are key semiotic conventions which may be used to efficiently promote sociocultural development of a region. The author speaks about some promising avenues for processing the spatial semiotics of ancient Russian settlements promoting their sociocultural development.
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Duncan, James S. "PROGRESS REPORT: REVIEW OF URBAN IMAGERY: URBAN SEMIOTICS." Urban Geography 8, no. 5 (September 1, 1987): 473–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.2747/0272-3638.8.5.473.
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Kurokhtina, Sofia R. "The Visual Space of a City: A Semiotic Approach." Izvestiya of Saratov University. New Series. Series: Philosophy. Psychology. Pedagogy 20, no. 4 (November 23, 2020): 364–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/1819-7671-2020-20-4-364-368.
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The article deals with the problem of visuality in the context of space from the point of view of visual semiotics. The choice of the problem determined the methodology, which is based on a semiotic approach. Visual semiotics uses induction as the main tool: analyzing individual elements of space, i.e. signs, it moves to the generalization of the results at the level of semiotics as a whole. The author believes that visual images captured in various architectural structures play an important role in shaping the social structure, the space of everyday communication, and the interaction practices of observing subjects. The purpose of the article is to characterize the basic principles of visual semiotics which reflect the theoretical understanding of urban architecture as a sign system. It is established that the main theoretical principles of visual semiotics in relation to space consist in the following provisions: first, visual artifacts which flood the city space are facts of communication, since they have a linguistic orientation and are perceived as signs. Secondly, the main property for a visual message is capacity – in a short period of time, the subject is able to perceive a much larger amount of information than from the text. And third, it is established that reading and generating new interpretations of urban space occur through everyday practices, during which the surrounding visual space is appropriated and personalized.
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Stampoulidis, Georgios. "Stories of resistance in Greek street Art: A cognitive-semiotic approach." Public Journal of Semiotics 8, no. 2 (September 23, 2019): 29–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.37693/pjos.2018.8.19872.
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In line with cognitive semiotics, this paper suggests a synthetic account of the important but controversial notion of narrative (in street art, and more generally): one that distinguishes between three levels: (a) narration, (b) underlying story, and (c) frame-setting. The narrative potential of street art has not yet been considerably studied in order to offer insights into how underlying stories may be reconstructed from the audience and how different semiotic systems contribute to this. The analysis is mainly based on three contemporary street artworks and two political cartoons from the 1940s, involving the same frame-setting, which may be labeled as “Greece vs. Powerful Enemy.” The study is built on fieldwork research that was carried out during several periods in central Athens since 2014. The qualitative analyses with the help of insights from phenomenology show that single static images do not narrate stories themselves (primary narrativity), but rather presuppose such stories, which they can prompt or trigger (secondary narrativity). Notably, the significance of sedimented socio-cultural experience, collective memory and contextual knowledge that the audience must recruit in order to reconstruct the narrative potential through the process of secondary narrativity is stressed.
Author BiographyGeorgios Stampoulidis, Centre for Language and Literature, Division for Cognitive Semiotics, Lund University, Sweden
Georgios Stampoulidis is a PhD candidate at the Division for Cognitive Semiotics at Lund University. His research interests are in the fields of polysemiotic communication and multimodality, narrative and metaphor, and urban creativity. His work focuses on street art as a cross-cultural medium of meaning-making, cultural production and political intervention in urban space, and thus, he has previously conducted fieldwork in Athens, Greece. His most recent publications are “A Cognitive Semiotic Exploration of Metaphors in Greek Street Art” (Cognitive Semiotics, 2019) and “Urban Creativity in Abandoned Places. Xenia Hotels Project, Greece” (Nuart Journal, 2019). Currently, he is research fellow at Urban Creativity Lund and Scandinavian Metaphor networks.
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Anisimov, N. O. "CITY IN DISCOURSE OF SEMIOTICS." Juvenis scientia, no. 12 (2018): 33–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.32415/jscientia.2018.12.09.
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The article examines the semiotic field of the city and its influence on the formation of a specific socio-cultural space. The author considers the city as a historically and culturally developed space, continuously producing cultural information. According to the author, urban space is a special subject-object environment, where an individual, a citizen, is in the role of an actively cognizing subject, and the city is in the status of an object, on the one hand, passively cognizable, on the other hand, actively giving itself to identify, reveal with the help of specific techniques, called us semantic-semiological practices. Semiotic meanings of urban space appear before us in the form of a cultural code that a person is able to read.
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Pennycook, Alastair, and Emi Otsuji. "Making scents of the landscape." Linguistic Landscape. An international journal 1, no. 3 (December 7, 2015): 191–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ll.1.3.01pen.
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Moving away from logocentric studies of the linguistic landscape, this paper explores the relations between linguascapes and smellscapes. Often regarded as the least important of our senses, smell is an important means by which we relate to place. Based on an olfactory ethnography of a multicultural suburb in Sydney, we show how the intersection of people, objects, activities and senses make up the spatial repertoire of a place. We thus take a broad view of the semiotic landscape, including more than the visual and the intentional, and suggest that we are interpellated by smells as part of a broader relation to space and place. Understanding the semiotics of the urban smellscape in associational terms, we therefore argue not merely that smell has generally been overlooked in semiotic landscapes, nor that this can be rectified by an expanded inventory of sensory signs, but rather that the interpellative and associational roles of smells invite us towards an alternative semiotics of time and place.
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Susilo, Daniel, and Mega Primatama. "City Architecture as the Production of Urban Culture: Semiotics Review for Cultural Studies." Jurnal Humaniora 30, no. 3 (October 2, 2018): 248. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/jh.29117.
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This article aims to describe correlation between city's architecture as urban culture and cultural studies, specifically in semiotics. This article starts from Chris Barker's statement about city and urban as text in his phenomenal book, Cultural Studies, Theory and Practice. City as a complex subject has been transformed as the representation of urban culture. In the post-modernism view, urban culture as cultural space and cultural studies' sites have significantly pointed to became communications discourse and also part of the identity of Semiology. This article uses semiotics of Saussure for the research methods. Surabaya and Jakarta has been chosen for the objects of this article. The result of this article is describing the significant view of architecture science helps the semiotics in cultural studies. In other way, city's architecture becomes the strong identity of urban culture in Jakarta and Surabaya. Architecture approaches the cultural studies to view urban culture, especially in symbol and identity in the post-modernism era.
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Susilo, Daniel, and Mega Primatama. "City Architecture as the Production of Urban Culture: Semiotics Review for Cultural Studies." Jurnal Humaniora 30, no. 3 (October 2, 2018): 248. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/jh.v30i3.29117.
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This article aims to describe correlation between city's architecture as urban culture and cultural studies, specifically in semiotics. This article starts from Chris Barker's statement about city and urban as text in his phenomenal book, Cultural Studies, Theory and Practice. City as a complex subject has been transformed as the representation of urban culture. In the post-modernism view, urban culture as cultural space and cultural studies' sites have significantly pointed to became communications discourse and also part of the identity of Semiology. This article uses semiotics of Saussure for the research methods. Surabaya and Jakarta has been chosen for the objects of this article. The result of this article is describing the significant view of architecture science helps the semiotics in cultural studies. In other way, city's architecture becomes the strong identity of urban culture in Jakarta and Surabaya. Architecture approaches the cultural studies to view urban culture, especially in symbol and identity in the post-modernism era.
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Leone, Massimo. "City of Nostalgia: The Semiotics of Urban Retrotopias." Chinese Semiotic Studies 15, no. 1 (February 25, 2019): 77–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/css-2019-0005.
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Abstract The Casa da Nostalgia, or “Nostalgic house,” in the Taipa area of the special administrative region of Macau, is a museum devoted to temporary exhibitions reconstructing everyday life in the city, especially in the epoch of Portuguese ruling. Just opposite the museum, on the other side of a large pond, a giant casino, the Venetian Macau, reproduces Venice both with its external architecture and its interior design. The article analyzes these two urban settings in order to develop a semiotic understanding of as many ways of symbolically reconstructing cities. On the one hand, cities can be reconstructed in a nostalgic form; the essay inquires on the origin and the consequences of urban nostalgia; on the other hand, cities can be reconstructed as ersatz. The article further investigates the dialectics between predominantly temporal or prevailingly spatial urban reconstructions, with reference to the socio-cultural dynamics that have changed Macau in the last decades. The article concludes with the methodological suggestion that the study of urban re-constructions requires the combined efforts of several disciplines, jointly investigating why, how, but also to what effect cities are re-built.
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Kilborne, Benjamin. ": Semiotics, Self, and Society . Benjamin Lee, Greg Urban." American Anthropologist 93, no. 4 (December 1991): 985–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aa.1991.93.4.02a00480.
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Kundrotaitė, Aušra. "Spatiality of the City in Literature: Possibilities and Limits of the Semiotic Approach." Respectus Philologicus, no. 37(42) (April 20, 2020): 170–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/respectus.2020.37.42.48.
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The article attempts to delineate adequate ways of thinking about the spatiality of the city in literature. It examines two semiotic approaches to the problematic of the city, namely Jurij Lotman’s semiotics of culture and Algirdas Julius Greimas’ urban semiotics, and their applicability to the analysis of its literary representation. Lotman’s concept of semiosphere is invoked to outline the complex, two-way relationship between consciousness and the city. Highlighting the communicative and autocommunication processes of culture helps to establish a link with Greimas’ interpretive and generative methodological approaches. Both Greimas and Lotman treat the city as a virtual reality concentrating on the ideological, symbolical and philosophical aspects of it. Their theories regard language primarily as an acoustic phenomenon (as speech), and consequently tend to disregard its visual (e. g. graphic) features. The article considers possible combinations of the different branches of semiotics. The special attention is focused on demonstrating the importance of the (inter)medial aspects of the literary representation. A case study of the photo-essay helps to expose similarities and differences of the semiotic and the intermedial approaches. The article demonstrates how recognizing specific (inter)medial aspects of the text allows regarding the literary city as a topological object.
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Valibeigi, Mojtaba. "Deconstruction and fractalization of urban identity." Journal of Urban Society's Arts 7, no. 1 (September 20, 2020): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.24821/jousa.v7i1.3843.
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The research, by referring to the Dur Untash city at the Symbolic level, seeks to answer the question that how in urban semiotics, the city's identity has acquired a semantic significance beyond its significance. The situation of the city expresses a state that any kind of dominant discourses has lost their accreditation capacity and authority, and the audience cannot rely on any of the currents that were considered as definitive. City identity is nothing but fractal games that there is no source of authority that indicates the fixed meaning of these formulas and this is a social contract. These contracts derive from the semiotic rules which is agreed upon in the community. In this game will be try to impose certain meanings on the city identity using the symbolic function; to internalize meta-narrative (internalization process) and in this way, the identity and the presence of the Dur-Untash city will be recorded in time and reach an immortal realm.
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Stamatovic-Vuckovic, Slavica. "Architectural communication: Intra and extra activity of architecture." Spatium, no. 29 (2013): 68–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/spat1329068s.
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Apart from a brief overview of architectural communication viewed from the standpoint of theory of information and semiotics, this paper contains two forms of dualistically viewed architectural communication. The duality denotation/connotation (?primary? and ?secondary? architectural communication) is one of semiotic postulates taken from Umberto Eco who viewed architectural communication as a semiotic phenomenon. In addition, architectural communication can be viewed as an intra and an extra activity of architecture where the overall activity of the edifice performed through its spatial manifestation may be understood as an act of communication. In that respect, the activity may be perceived as the ?behavior of architecture?, which corresponds to Lefebvre?s production of space.
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Iqani, Mehita. "Reading the Newsstand." Space and Culture 14, no. 4 (September 19, 2011): 431–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331211412272.
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The article discusses the relationship between the semiotics of magazine cover display and the geography of their retail spaces (newsstands). Based on a participant observation of newsstands, the article provides a reflexive account of the semiotic characteristics of diverse newsstands that arguably create a (limited yet significant) sense of “placelessness.” Newsstands are empirical objects that have been little studied. They are thus theoretically contextualized with reference to scholarship addressing magazines as well as the cultural geography of retail space. In the context of the latter, the spectacle and surveillance are highlighted as key framing concepts. The article then gives an account of the methodological approach adopted to study newsstands—participant observation, in particular a form modeled on the flâneur. The resulting account argues that newsstand semiotics create a sense of “placelessness” through three structural features evident at every newsstand visited: (a) the display of surveillance technologies, (b) the plentifulness of commodity stocks and imagery, and (c) a spectacular sense of luxurious full color textuality. The article concludes by arguing that the study of the semiotics of newsstands contributes to scholarship addressing the cultures of urban spaces of consumption, which in turn holds great potential for extending debates about the discursive and social power of media texts such as magazines.
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Chang, Robin A. "How Do Scholars Communicate the ‘Temporary Turn’ in Urban Studies? A Socio-Semiotic Framework." Urban Planning 6, no. 1 (February 24, 2021): 133–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v6i1.3613.
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Interdisciplinarity broadens urban planning praxis and simultaneously deepens how urban research unfurls. Indeed, this breadth and depth diverges and converges the understanding of current and popular concepts such as temporary use (TU)—also recognized as short-term or temporally undefined use of space. Through a meta-research, or research about research approach employing socio-semiotics and bibliometric analyses for the first time in relation to TU, I clarify the increasing scholarly attention to urban interventions by asking: How are urban scholars communicating the TU discourse? A socio-semiotic framework helps unpack the production of meanings as well as symbols channeled through the scholarly institutionalization of TU. Supporting this, I use bibliometric analyses to explicate the production and reproduction of meaning through keywords and citation networks in research literature. This study illuminates epistemological activities and reflects on directions tied to our understanding and articulation of a potential ‘Temporary Turn’ in theory and practice.
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Foote, Kenneth E., Mark Gottdiener, and Alexandros Lagopoulos. "The City and the Sign: An Introduction to Urban Semiotics." Economic Geography 64, no. 1 (January 1988): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/143921.
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Keller, Suzanne, Mark Gottdiener, and Alexandros Ph Lagopoulos. "The City and the Sign: An Introduction to Urban Semiotics." Contemporary Sociology 17, no. 3 (May 1988): 346. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2069642.
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Tegtmeyer, Lina L. "Tourism aesthetics in ruinscapes: Bargaining cultural and monetary values of Detroit’s negative image." Tourist Studies 16, no. 4 (July 31, 2016): 462–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468797615618100.
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Based on the premise that pictures are not only culturally but also economically meaningful in the context of tourism, this article proposes a rearrangement of MacCannell’s model “semiotics of attraction” to discuss current negotiations of meaning of sight/site marking with urban photography. In Detroit, the city’s negative image has changed from ill-reputed urban wasteland to picturesque ruinscape of “America’s Great Comeback City.” Turning the post-industrial shrinking city into a tourist attraction has not resolved socio-economic problems but instead commodified them. Carving out the underlying neoliberal ideology in cultural meaning of urban decline at the example of Detroit’s changed image, this article puts forth to debate in how far tourism shifts from being a leisure activity to being a marketing strategy and what that means for negotiations of cultural values through tourism semiotics, the significance of photography, and the visual in urban tourism, and eventually for the significance of tourism in urban development.
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Ismanto, Idealita. "BUDAYA SELFIE MASYARAKAT URBAN Kajian Estetika Fotografi, Cyber Culture, dan Semiotika Visual." REKAM: Jurnal Fotografi, Televisi, dan Animasi 14, no. 1 (August 15, 2018): 67. http://dx.doi.org/10.24821/rekam.v14i1.2138.
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Penelitian ini membahas eksistensi individu yang dikonstruksi berdasarkan budaya visual. Selfie dan media sosial pada budaya visual sebagai wujud eksistensi merupakan kata yang tepat untuk menyikapiperkembangan eksistensi masyarakat. Persoalan yang diangkat membahas bagaimana budaya selfie dapat terjadi pada masyarakat urban, mengkaji budaya selfie melalui kajian estetika fotografi, cyberculture, dan semiotika visual serta perubahan sosial yang terjadi dalam masyarakat urban. Metode yang digunakan adalahobservasi dan wawancara. Kegiatan analisis data dimulai dari tahap pengumpulan data, tahap reduksi, tahap penyajian data, serta tahap penarikan kesimpulan dengan penelitian kualitatif. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa praktik baru dalam cyberculture dan budaya visual yakni selfie, media sosial sebagai ranah eksistensi, masyarakat menjadikan selfie sebagai eksistensi diri yang narsisme. Masyarakat saling beradu eksistensi dengan media sosial yang berobjekkan wisata dan kesenian. AbstractSelfie Culture of Urban Society (Study of the Aesthetic of Photography, Cyberculture, and Visual Semiotics). This research discusses the existence of individuals constructed based on visual culture. Selfie and social media in the visual culture as a form of existence is the right word to address the development of society’s existence. The issues raised would discuss how the selfie culture can occur in the urban society, how the study of selfie culture through the aesthetic of photography, cyberculture studies, and the visual semiotics and also the social changes that occur in the urban societies. The method employed was observation and interview. The data analysis activities were started from the data collection step, the reduction step, the data presentation step, and the conclusion with qualitative research. It can be concluded that the new practice in cyberculture and visual culture, which is selfie, in the social media as the realm of existence, society makes selfie as the existence of narcissistic self. Communities collide with the existence of social media consisting touristy tourists’ attraction and arts.
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Remm, Tiit. "Textualities of the city – from the legibility of urban space towards social and natural others in planning." Sign Systems Studies 44, no. 1/2 (July 5, 2016): 34–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2016.44.1-2.03.
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‘Text’ has been a frequent notion in analytical conceptualizations of landscape and the city. It is mostly found in analyses of textual representations or suggestions concerning a metaphor of “reading” an (urban) landscape. In the Tartu- Moscow School of Semiotics the idea of the text of St. Petersburg has also been applied in analysing particular cities as organizing topics in literature and in culture more widely, but it has not happened to an equal degree in studies of actual urban spaces. The understanding of text as a semiotic system and mechanism is, however, more promising than revealed by these conceptions. Some potential can be made apparent by relating this textual paradigm to a more pragmatic understanding of the city and its planning. My project in this paper is to uncover an analytical framework focusing on the concepts of ‘text’, ‘textualization’ and ‘texting’ in studying the planning of urban environment. The paper observes the case of the urban planning process of the Tartu city centre in Estonia during 2010–2016, and is particularly concerned with the roles that urban nature has acquired in the process of this “textualization” of the local environment, societal ideals, practices and possible others.
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Terekhova, M. V. "Semiotics of formal menswear of early 20th century." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg State University of Culture, no. 1 (30) (March 2017): 71–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.30725/2619-0303-2020-3-71-74.
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The complex of problems accompanying a process of modern-day reception of historical costume is analyzed. Formal menswear is researched as a hierarchically organized communicational system of semantic elements only conceivable by actors, familiarized with particular semiotic code of the culture. The case of modern-day museum reconstruction of formal menswear of the early XX century is used to illustrate the reasons behind the retrospective semantic misinterpretation of historical costume. In the particular case, a waiter’s uniform was mistakenly perceived by researcher as a typical urban menswear of the 1900’s. A semantic reconstruction of authentic vestimentary codes and meanings was carried out.
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Sahril, Sahril, Syahifuddin Zuhri Harahap, and Agus Bambang Hermanto. "LANSKAP LINGUISTIK KOTA MEDAN: KAJIAN ONOMASTIKA, SEMIOTIKA, DAN SPASIAL." MEDAN MAKNA: Jurnal Ilmu Kebahasaan dan Kesastraan 17, no. 2 (December 3, 2019): 195. http://dx.doi.org/10.26499/mm.v17i2.2141.
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Language is a marker of social change that occurs in society. Prescriptivism, which is more glorifying language that is considered more modern. Linguistic landscape views urban as text. The meaning is, because language is widely used in public spaces in urban areas. Linguistic landscape is the presence of language between space and place. An interdisciplinary study of the presence of various language issues that interact with other languages in the public sphere. This study describes the phenomenon of linguistic landscape in Medan in the categories of onomastics, semiotics and spatial. The method used, namely qualitative research methods. The research threat uses the linguistic landscape theory of the Landry & Bourhis (1997) model. The research findings are the use of foreign languages that dominate the landscape in Medan City. Indonesian is no longer the sole authority in a region. Found onomastical, semiotic, and spatial aspects in the linguistic landscape in the city of Medan.
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Golomidova, Marina V. "Toponymic Image-Building for Urban Locations." Вопросы ономастики 17, no. 3 (2020): 263–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/vopr_onom.2020.17.3.043.
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The paper looks into the specifics of urban place naming from the perspective of modern territory marketing and branding. Regarding the image of a place as a strategy, the author postulates the importance of toponymic image-building for the market economy and transformation of the socio-cultural milieu. The study focuses on the cases of urban naming aimed at managing the perception of spatial objects and supported through their specific media representation. Most of these place names belong to Ekaterinburg, although some references to other cities are made as well. The originality of the proposed research consists in using discourse analysis to explain the image-building capacities of place naming that relate both to the name choice and to the semiotics of the material landscape, as well as to the intents and purposes of stakeholders involved in the promotion process. Toponymic image-building techniques are commonly used for positioning and promotion of residential real estate, prestigious business facilities, leisure and sports grounds. This enables the author to outline the naming techniques associated with different spheres of social relations. It is noted that toponymic image-building is another means of commodification of urban space, which is not limited to the cost component as such but also adds to the social value of the urban landscape. The conditional-symbolic principle of naming proves to be increasingly productive, which, according to the author, attests to the growing popularity of individualising components in ergonymic and toponymic naming. The research outcomes, covering both linguistic and general semiotic aspects of toponymic image-building, can contribute to solving problematic issues of applied toponymy and the development of urban toponymic policy.
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Cohen, Adrienne J. "Performing excess: urban ceremony and the semiotics of precarity in Guinea-Conakry." Africa 89, no. 4 (November 2019): 718–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972019000871.
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AbstractIn Conakry, the capital city of the Republic of Guinea, dance ceremonies called sabars, derived from a Senegalese genre of the same name, have become extremely popular for wedding celebrations. Sabar's rise in Guinea coincided with the liberalization of the country's economy and the opening of national borders in the wake of state socialism (1958–84) – events that have produced profound uncertainty for average citizens. This article explores sabar as a practice that grapples affectively with the social and economic changes neoliberal reform has engendered within Guinea. Sabar ceremonies are characterized by instantiations of excess, including hypersexualized dancing, electric amplification and theatrical displays of opulence. By examining excess as an ‘emergent’ quality whose cultural value is undetermined, the article demonstrates how dancers participate in the active constitution and questioning of collective value in Conakry, and how embodiment is central to an anthropology of precarity.
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Stojiljković, Danica, and Jelena Ristić Trajković. "Semiotics and urban culture: architectural projections of structuralism in a socialist context." Social Semiotics 28, no. 3 (March 8, 2017): 330–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2017.1300084.
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Porteous, J. Douglas. "Book Review: The City and the Sign: An Introduction to Urban Semiotics." Progress in Human Geography 11, no. 3 (September 1987): 461–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030913258701100318.
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Degani, Michael. "Cutting without Cutting Connection: The Semiotics of Power Patrols in Urban Tanzania." Signs and Society 9, no. 2 (March 1, 2021): 176–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/714856.
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Freitas, Eduardo Pacheco. "O desenvolvimento da arquitetura gótica a partir da filosofia escolástica." Nuntius Antiquus 9, no. 2 (December 31, 2013): 201–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/1983-3636.9.2.201-220.
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This paper aims to explore the onset and peak of the development of Gothic architecture, religious art and architecture eminently urban, between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in the medieval West, in a socio-religious Catholic hegemony. The message sent to the faithful through the Gothic architecture, replacing Romanesque, indicates in this case a major change in mindset, since we consider the importance of semiotics in art, architecture and urban space.
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Stuedahl, Dagny, and Sarah Lowe. "Social Media as Resource for Involving Young People in Museum Innovation." International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development 6, no. 3 (July 2014): 60–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijskd.2014070104.
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This paper takes root in how social media represents a new framework and form of communication and how designing for the meditated encounters with these media require interdisciplinary perspectives from both cultural studies and interaction design. The authors argue that involving young people with social media as a participatory tool requires that designers take into consideration how visual interpretation, social semiotic, semantic and spatial practices are inherent in everyday social media usage. The authors report from a design research project where the media sharing software Instagram was used to explore how everyday users in an urban environment would relate to cultural heritage data. The authors propose a cultural studies based focus on the semiotics of mediation as a potential design based research methods that fit with participatory practices with social media.
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Fachun, Chen, and Olga Leontovich. "Tale of Two Cities: Historical Narratives in the Russian and Chinese Urban Landscapes." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 2. Jazykoznanije, no. 2 (May 2020): 78–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2020.2.7.
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The present paper is part of a broader research "Language of a Big City: Media Urban Discourse in Russia and China". Its theoretical basis is situated in the contact zone between narratology, critical discourse analysis, semiotics and urban communication studies. The investigation is carried out on the example of two big non-capital cities – Volgograd and Tianjin, which represent the social processes typical of modern urban communities. The research model used for the study includes the following dimensions: 1) types of urban narratives; 2) narrator; 3) audience (reader / listener / viewer); 4) plot; 5) time; 6) space; 7) types of semiotic signs; 8) intertextual connections. The investigation proceeds from the idea about the textuality of the human mind, as well as the narrative ways of reality and identity construction. Multiple narratives can provide different urban history interpretations. Politicians use narratives to appropriate or reshape the past and the present as a common form of manipulation. A specific feature of urban historical narratives is that they do not possess fixed temporal boundaries and change due to the dynamics of urban social life. We argue that the stories that shape memories in the minds of general public are condensed versions of historical narratives based on the most intensely remembered facts, coloured with emotions and intensified by visual images, impressions and intertextual links. This idea emphasises the social responsibility of the creators of modern urban narratives in their different forms. The perspective of the research is to investigate the connection of these processes with Russian and Chinese mentality, values, logic of meaning-making and linguistic expression.
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Mahboubeh, Madari Mohades. "SEMIOTICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL GRAPHICS IN THE APPEARANCE OF THE PLACE IN URBAN ADVERTISING." TURKISH ONLINE JOURNAL OF DESIGN, ART AND COMMUNICATION 6, JLYSPCL (July 1, 2016): 792–806. http://dx.doi.org/10.7456/1060jse/048.
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Romão, João. "Tourists, signs and the city: the semiotics of culture in an urban landscape." Journal of Tourism History 5, no. 3 (November 2013): 355–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1755182x.2014.913370.
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Reddleman, Claire. "Tourists, Signs, and the City: The Semiotics of Culture in an Urban Landscape." Journal of Cultural Geography 30, no. 2 (June 2013): 267–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2013.796194.
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Krzyżanowska, Natalia. "The discourse of counter-monuments: semiotics of material commemoration in contemporary urban spaces." Social Semiotics 26, no. 5 (October 22, 2015): 465–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2015.1096132.
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Shim, Changsup. "Tourists, signs and the city: the semiotics of culture in an urban landscape." Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 11, no. 1-2 (June 2013): 132–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14766825.2012.755822.
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Fagence, Michael. "Tourists, Signs and the City: The Semiotics of Culture in an Urban Landscape." Australian Planner 50, no. 2 (June 2013): 179–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2012.688841.
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Swinehart, Karl. "Tupac in their Veins: Hip-Hop Alteño and the Semiotics of Urban Indigeneity." Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 16, no. 1 (2012): 79–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hcs.2012.0030.
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Sorokina, Nadia. "TOURISTS, SIGNS, AND THE CITY: The Semiotics of Culture in an Urban Environment." Annals of Tourism Research 39, no. 3 (July 2012): 1753–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2012.05.015.
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McLean, Robert, and Chris Holligan. "The Semiotics of the Evolving Gang Masculinity and Glasgow." Social Sciences 7, no. 8 (July 30, 2018): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci7080125.
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Glasgow has a persistent and historical gang culture. Dimensions of ‘the gang’ are widely recognized in terms of behavior, formation, membership, and territoriality. The gap in our knowledge lies in the nature of a gang’s evolutionary flexibility. Given that life-course criminology foregrounds continuity and change in offending, it is surprising that this evolution has gone unrecognized in Scotland. Many contemporary studies of youth gangs connect ‘gang talk’ exclusively with territoriality and masculinity overlooking criminal progression. The argument of this article does not dispute the dominant received conceptualization of the youth urban street gang. The article’s contribution is to progress beyond these narrowing tropes and chronological age boundaries to encompass a more complex portrayal of Glasgow gangs and the lives of the indigenous Scottish young lads who were interviewed. The article does this by voicing the lived experiences of those whose lives are enmeshed with gang membership and whose linguistic register rarely achieves a serious platform in the middle-class world in control of the British media.
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Nojima, Vera Lúcia. "Urban Environmental Language and Spatial Organization." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 44, no. 8 (July 2000): 56–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/154193120004400814.
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In order to verify the incidence of some aspects related to communication in urban space studies, this paper approaches first the notions of perception and interpretation of cities in the works of the geographer, Milton Santos; of the architect, Gordon Cullen; of the urban designers, Kevin Lynch and Amos Rapoport, and the semiotics master, Lucrécia D'Aléssio Ferrara. The purpose is to characterize urban design as an interdisciplinary system of environmental communication. This system expresses the development of a field of design professions and the preparation of the professionals combining design knowledge and skills of different areas of design professions (urbanism, architecture, ergonomics and graphic design) with a general understanding of the communication and educational processes. This paper aims to show that spatial organization and the circulation system can not be seen independent of environmental communication, which provides the information the users will need to solve the wayfind problems. Environmental education has to be based on perceptual, cognitive and behavioral development.
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Yu, Fang, Feng Zhao, Mao Ma, and Xiao Jie Liu. "The Design of Public Facilities Based on Semiotics in Emergency Shelters." Advanced Materials Research 368-373 (October 2011): 18–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.368-373.18.
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Public facilities are the basis of urban public space, and public facilities are core parts of emergency shelters. It is important that the design of rescue facilities focuses on relief efforts. This article analyzes the present situation and raises questions about the study on the design of public facilities in emergency shelters, then applies theory related to design semiotics, cites examples, and suggests improvements on the usability and completeness of public facilities in emergency shelters. Facilities design in emergency shelters provides the theoretical foundation to make rescue system of emergency shelter more effective in the future.
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Lagopoulos, A. P. "Postmodernism, Geography, and the Social Semiotics of Space." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 11, no. 3 (June 1993): 255–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d110255.
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The nucleus of postmodern philosophy and theory is derived primarily from French neostructuralist writings. The ontological foundation of such literature is the idealist rejection of the possibility of knowing reality and, as a consequence, the enclosure of the subject within the signifying universe, which in turn results in the exaltation of the signifying processes as the only social processes. The same emphasis, but through nonverbal means, is demonstrated by postmodern architectural and urban design. In geography, however, postmodernism is interpreted differently. In two recent books (by Soja and by Harvey) the postmodern era in human geography is related to the heightened importance of space for social reality and theory. But the split of geography itself between Marxist geography on the one hand, and behavioural and humanistic geography on the other, shows the pertinence of the signifying dimension for the field of geography. In this paper, it is argued that the roles of space and meaning are equally important for geography, and it is proposed that an analysis of the signifying aspect of space may be achieved through semiotics, currently the most complete and sophisticated theory of meaning and culture. The main problem for geography, which is addressed in the final section of this paper, is the integration of a renewed version of the semiotics of space with an equally renewed Marxist geography, the most powerful explanatory approach to geography we have at our disposal.
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Hwang, Young-Sam. "Signification Based on Inclusion Relations in Peirce’s Semiotics and Its Application in Urban Place." Semiotic Inquiry 64 (September 30, 2020): 193–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.24825/si.64.7.
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Welch, Michael. "Signs of trouble: Semiotics, streetscapes, and the Republican struggle in the North of Ireland." Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal 16, no. 1 (January 14, 2019): 7–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1741659018822939.
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Just as the political divisions in the North of Ireland are subject to ongoing critique, so too is its culture that maintains what scholars recognize as contested heritage. Ethno-political symbols, such as flags and murals, not only point to certain identities but also mark their territory. Whereas those emblems have been the subject of extensive research, political posters remain an overlooked source of rich iconography. This article fills that void by examining a collection of posters on display at the Irish Republican History Museum in West Belfast. The posters, in their original incarnation, emboldened the streetscapes of urban zones during “the Troubles”—a euphemism used to depict sectarian violence from the 1960s to the 1990s. In their afterlife, those posters have been preserved as material artefacts consumed by political tourists interested in gaining insight into the dissonance of heritage. Semiotics—the study of signs—provides a theoretical paradigm for this interpretation of the posters and their meaning. Moreover, Juri Lotman’s notion of the semiosphere (semiotic space) adds a deeper layer of analysis by directing critical attention to the role of the boundary where the performance of signs is most intense.
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Feliz Arrizabalaga, Nerea. "Urban Interiority in the Anthropocene." Interiority 3, no. 1 (January 24, 2020): 83–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.7454/in.v3i1.74.
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This paper explores how interior design could amplify the current discourse on sustainability within urban public space. The consideration of a number of contemporary authors that are questioning the traditional notion of interiority situates this paper within an expansive understanding of interiority in the context of the Anthropocene. Interiority is considered as a transferable condition based on modes of interior occupation, that can take place on the outdoors, and is often found in public spaces within dense urban areas. In the face of an upcoming biodiversity crisis, this text advocates for a necessary disciplinary shift away from traditional anthropocentric views, towards a multispecies conception of the built environment. Both the ideas and the case studies in this article seek to expand the role of interior elements, both semiotics and performance, to foster inclusivity of non-human species, in particular insects, in city environments. Two design proposals illustrate how interior design tactics might positively contribute to raising awareness about this underacknowledged population, and at the same time, help cultivate a sense of intimacy between us and the multiple life forms that inhabit our public urban spaces.