Applying significs
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Lill Sarv
Lill Sarv (b. 1980) is independent researcher and freelance journalist 〈lill.sarv@gmail.com 〉. Her research interests include future studies and sustainable societies, more precisely the concept of social sustainability, and studies in significs and semioethics. Her publications include “Italian Futurism – opened or closed work?” (2005); “L'uomo scritto dalla natura” (2008); “Interpreting humans' place in nature” (2008); and “Beyond sustainability: A semioethic critique” (2010).
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Kaur Sarv
Kaur Sarv (b. 1979) is a master's student at the Estonian Academy of Arts 〈kaur.sarv@artun.ee 〉. His research interests include political and economic development in urban governance, studies in significs, and sustainable urban transport planning and design. His publications include “Sustainable transport report for the Estonian Government Sustainable Development Committee” (2010); “Carsharing as sustainable transport policy instrument for urban areas” (2010); and “How to measure public space?” (2012).
Abstract
In this article we outline how significs was formerly applied by the Netherland Signific Movement and how it influenced the work of Patrick Geddes in the field of urban studies. In the last section we analyze urban planning activities in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, from a signific viewpoint. These activities were inaugurated by the European Capitals of Culture nomination in 2011. We apply the signific method to the action of three stakeholders in the developing seashore area of city center – Kultuurikilomeeter. The influence of stakeholder activities considered in significal terms as communication acts will also be assessed with a view to possible future outcomes.
Victoria Welby's significs was intended to be truly interdisciplinary, and interdisciplinarity is indeed an orientation that characterizes Welby's work as much as significs in general. Significs offers infinite interpretive possibilities and is applicable to the human sciences as much as to other scientific disciplines. The selection from Welby's writings and correspondence presented by Susan Petrilli in Signifying and Understanding evidences this particular aspect of significs very clearly. Texts and letters collected by Susan Petrilli in this volume offer a good overview of Welby's manifold research interests.
About the authors
Lill Sarv (b. 1980) is independent researcher and freelance journalist 〈lill.sarv@gmail.com〉. Her research interests include future studies and sustainable societies, more precisely the concept of social sustainability, and studies in significs and semioethics. Her publications include “Italian Futurism – opened or closed work?” (2005); “L'uomo scritto dalla natura” (2008); “Interpreting humans' place in nature” (2008); and “Beyond sustainability: A semioethic critique” (2010).
Kaur Sarv (b. 1979) is a master's student at the Estonian Academy of Arts 〈kaur.sarv@artun.ee〉. His research interests include political and economic development in urban governance, studies in significs, and sustainable urban transport planning and design. His publications include “Sustainable transport report for the Estonian Government Sustainable Development Committee” (2010); “Carsharing as sustainable transport policy instrument for urban areas” (2010); and “How to measure public space?” (2012).
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Articles in the same Issue
- Masthead
- Introduction
- Lady Welby and Lady Petrilli
- Victoria Lady Welby – A pioneer of semiotic thought rediscovered by Susan Petrilli
- The life of significance: Cultivating ingenuity no less than signs
- Mother sense and the image schema of the gift
- Signification, common knowledge, and womanhood: The significs of Lady Victoria Welby and beyond
- Science: The question of its limits
- Susan Petrilli's archival research on Victoria Welby and its implications for future scholarly inquiry
- The “dialogue” between Victoria Lady Welby and Mikhail Bakhtin – Reading Susan Petrilli's Signifying and Understanding
- Christine Ladd-Franklin's and Victoria Welby's correspondence with Charles Peirce
- Tracing signs of a developing science: On the correspondence between Victoria Lady Welby and Charles S. Peirce
- Signs, senses and cognition: Lady Welby and contemporary semiotics
- Space and time: Continuity in the correspondence between Charles Peirce and Victoria Welby
- Significs and semiotics: Chronicle of an encounter foretold
- Hic et nunc: Evidence from canine zoosemiotics
- Lady Welby: Significs and the interpretive mind
- The translating and signifying subject as homo interpres and homo significans: Victoria Welby's concept of translation – a polyfunctional tool
- Semiosis and intersemiotic translation
- Signs, translation, and life in the Bakhtin circle and in Welby's significs
- Significs and mathematics: Creative and other subjects
- The sense, meaning, and significance of the Twin International Covenants on Political and Economic Rights
- Significal Designs: Translating for meanings that truly matter
- Mysticism and mind in Welby's significs
- On the translatability of liturgical texts: A significal perspective
- Money and metaphor in Welby Prize winner F. Tönnies' “Philosophical terminology”: Some critical considerations
- Lady Welby and logic
- Willing science – observing nature: Welby and Latour lift the veil
- In search of the other: Reading Victoria Welby's significs
- The aphasic utterance: A significal perspective
- The articulate music of language in The King's Speech
- Applying significs
- Presentation: Two texts at the beginning of a research itinerary. From significs to semioethics
- Theory of meaning and theory of knowledge: Vailati and Welby
- Sign and meaning in Victoria Welby and Mikhail Bakhtin: A confrontation
- Early recognitions of Welby's significs and the movement it inspired in the Netherlands
Articles in the same Issue
- Masthead
- Introduction
- Lady Welby and Lady Petrilli
- Victoria Lady Welby – A pioneer of semiotic thought rediscovered by Susan Petrilli
- The life of significance: Cultivating ingenuity no less than signs
- Mother sense and the image schema of the gift
- Signification, common knowledge, and womanhood: The significs of Lady Victoria Welby and beyond
- Science: The question of its limits
- Susan Petrilli's archival research on Victoria Welby and its implications for future scholarly inquiry
- The “dialogue” between Victoria Lady Welby and Mikhail Bakhtin – Reading Susan Petrilli's Signifying and Understanding
- Christine Ladd-Franklin's and Victoria Welby's correspondence with Charles Peirce
- Tracing signs of a developing science: On the correspondence between Victoria Lady Welby and Charles S. Peirce
- Signs, senses and cognition: Lady Welby and contemporary semiotics
- Space and time: Continuity in the correspondence between Charles Peirce and Victoria Welby
- Significs and semiotics: Chronicle of an encounter foretold
- Hic et nunc: Evidence from canine zoosemiotics
- Lady Welby: Significs and the interpretive mind
- The translating and signifying subject as homo interpres and homo significans: Victoria Welby's concept of translation – a polyfunctional tool
- Semiosis and intersemiotic translation
- Signs, translation, and life in the Bakhtin circle and in Welby's significs
- Significs and mathematics: Creative and other subjects
- The sense, meaning, and significance of the Twin International Covenants on Political and Economic Rights
- Significal Designs: Translating for meanings that truly matter
- Mysticism and mind in Welby's significs
- On the translatability of liturgical texts: A significal perspective
- Money and metaphor in Welby Prize winner F. Tönnies' “Philosophical terminology”: Some critical considerations
- Lady Welby and logic
- Willing science – observing nature: Welby and Latour lift the veil
- In search of the other: Reading Victoria Welby's significs
- The aphasic utterance: A significal perspective
- The articulate music of language in The King's Speech
- Applying significs
- Presentation: Two texts at the beginning of a research itinerary. From significs to semioethics
- Theory of meaning and theory of knowledge: Vailati and Welby
- Sign and meaning in Victoria Welby and Mikhail Bakhtin: A confrontation
- Early recognitions of Welby's significs and the movement it inspired in the Netherlands
