The present paper presents a road map of different theoretical perspectives which disclose a breakthrough approach to organisational innovation and development. It starts from an overview of key questions related to the concept of double-loop learning, then it relates innovation to the concepts of entrepreneurship and leadership, it highlights the key role of the fields of Organisational Learni...

To follow the transdisciplinary ambition in much information science and philosophy leading to cognitive science we need to include a phenomenological and hermeneutical ground in order to encompass a theory of interpretative meaning and signification to achieve a transdisciplinary theory of knowing and communication. This is also true if we start in cybernetics and system theory that also have ...

—This paper intends to demonstrate the importance of a Linguistic approach for understanding the complexity implied in the simulations of the Built Environment. Indeed, it will be asserted that Architecture uses a performative communication system, which is translated in a narrative script by its Users owning the right competencies on the social environment where it take place; so, it will be r...

In this paper we present a collaborative work between computer and social scientists resulting in the development of annotation software for conducting research and analysis in social semiotics in both multimodal and linguistic aspects. The paper describes the proposed software and discusses how this tool can contribute for development of social semiotic the-

Designers are among those professionals who have shown a first and continued interest in the modern revival of semiotics. In search of a theory for a field of human practice characterized by a lack of conceptual discipline, designers, especially those formed in the Ulm School tradition, were willing to adopt semiotics as their theory, provided that semioticians pay attention to critical problem...

Gunther Kress’s multimodal and social semiotic theory of communication has moved beyond the realm linguistics, which originally framed his work, reached out to inform other fields, such as those education, museum studies, well humanities sciences more broadly. This article brings together our insights in relation a concept from theory, that design. Drawing research, we reflect on conceptualisat...

Active perspective-taking (PT) has been argued to improve performance on social coordination tasks (Galinsky, Wang, & Ku, 2005). In most such tasks individuals are free to use any natural form of communication, making it difficult to differentiate between the effects of the empathic and cognitive aspects of PT. The Experimental Semiotics research paradigm (Galantucci & Garrod, 2011) provides so...