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Landscape as semiotic artefact. Proposals for a dialogue between archeology and materialistic semiotics

Landscape as semiotic artefact. Proposals for a dialogue between archeology and materialistic semiotics

Panel:
[PA] Semiotic Explorations of Ecology (in Design, Architecture, Urbanism, Landscaping) (Isabel Marcos, Claudio Guerri)
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Speaker:
Giorgio Borrelli
University of Bari "Aldo Moro"
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The intersection of semiotics and landscape archaeology presents an innovative approach for comprehending the complex interplay between human beings and their environments. Semiotics provides a theoretical framework to interpret the symbolic meanings ant the socio-cultural narratives assigned to the archaeological landscapes by past societies. This approach enables an exploration of how past communities imbued their surroundings with meaning, reflecting their beliefs, ideologies, and social structures. Therefore, the archaeological landscape can be also understood as a mindscape – i.e., as sign-system produced by the interaction between landscape and interpretative cultural processes. In this perspective, archaeology can be understood as a semiotic of material reality, a semiotic of the human workings on the environment and landscape. This insight allows to overcome the prejudice that landscape is something static and purely natural, starting to consider it as an artefact, that is, a product of human cultural labour. This latter thesis presents some similarities with Ferruccio Rossi-Landi’s materialistic semiotics; indeed, starting from the Marxian acceptation of labour as goal- oriented activity, Rossi-Landi, considers every human artefact – including landscapes – as synapses in which material and semiotic production converge. By considering landscape as a material-semiotic artefact, it is also possible to understand it as a Sign in a Peircean sense. Indeed, according to Giovanni Maddalena (2011), every type of labour implies a teleological transformation of reality towards a goal (symbol), realised at a particular point (index) according to an infinite set of possibilities (icon).

Location:
3.120 room, WLS (Dobra 55 street)

Explore Sessions

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September
9:30
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10:30
Location:
Mickiewicz Hall, Auditorium Maximum (Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28 str.)
Congress events
Opening Ceremony

September 2, 2024
Congress events
Mickiewicz Hall, Auditorium Maximum (Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28 str.)
02
September
10:30
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11:30
Location:
Mickiewicz Hall, Auditorium Maximum (Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28 str.)
From Signs of Language to Semioses of Life: Paradigms and Turns in Global Semiotics

September 2, 2024
Mickiewicz Hall, Auditorium Maximum (Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28 str.)
02
September
11:30
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12:15
Location:
Australia Hall, WLS (Dobra 55 street)
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Coffee break [catering]

September 2, 2024
Catering
Australia Hall, WLS (Dobra 55 street)
Giorgio Borrelli