Green light for swimming
Green light for swimming ☀️// urban semiotic infrastructure (the material support for communicating specific things in specific places)
Surface questions
Urban citizenship questions -
Research questions -
Which signs and images do cities show us in public spaces? How many types of signs and images can you identify on a 50m stretch of a high street? And can you question their provenance, legitimacy and contribution equally?
The semiotics of restriction
Much of our behaviour in shared urban spaces is guided through street signage whose meaning we learn to decode as urban dwellers. Street signs and plaques, traffic signs and notices, are not only one of the main uses of urban surfaces, but they also create…