Semiotics, culture and space

Communication and the Semiotics of Space

The purpose of this article is to explicate some common situations relevant to communication and the semiotics of space. Semiotics provides a systemic way to analyse and understand the characteristics of signs expressing meaning. In everyday life space is rarely considered for its independent qualities, but is more generally taken as a category of conceptions that act as a background, or a cont...

Huhtamo DESIGN CULTURE AND SEMIOTICS - Some basic concepts

Etymology: from the Greek word "semeion" ("sign") Semiotics is a field of research that studies signs as an essential part of cultural life and communication. According to semiotics, we can only know culture (and reality itself) by means of signs, in other words, through the processes of signification. Semiotics has two founders: the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (died 1913) and the Amer...

Space and Culture

Space and Culture

Space and Culture