Sep 2, 2024 1:45 PM
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Trajective design and mesosemiotics: Transforming rubbish into realty

Trajective design and mesosemiotics: Transforming rubbish into realty

Panel:
[PA] Semiotics of Nature-Culture Relations (Katarzyna Machtyl)
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Speaker:
Alec Kozicki
University of Tartu
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The research examines how the concept of Earthships are a type of contemporary techno-living space that functions as a self-sustainable potentiality for its inhabitants through the integration of repurposed commodities and natural local resources, this offers a trajectory of co-development with the environment and a creative evolutionary process of Farouk Seif’s (2019) concept of de-sign. This research identifies how the object(s) (Earthship and materials used), the subject(s) (creator and inhabitant) and the environment (physical and hyperreal) are interrelated during the process of co-development by utilizing the systems offered by nature and culture. What we will see is that the trajective process of an inhabitant aiming for “off-the-grid” living within a sustainable environment requires vital resources that are understood and provided from biological, cultural, technological, political, and ecological systems. Within this framework, the concept of de-sign is a metatheory that bridges how nature is a continuously unfolding, evolving system which incorporates our theoretical understanding of political ecology, semiotic ecology, semiotic components, and the mesological process which are all interwoven that forms a trajectory by the relations of the inhabitants’ lifeworld and the space inhabited. Through the dynamic interweaving of these juxtaposed lenses, one can argue that a new branch of semiotics emerges, mesosemiotics, which has the goal to find the middle ground for the continuous unfolding meaning that emerges within the inseparability of nature and culture.

Location:
2.158 room, WLS (Dobra 55 street)

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September
9:30
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10:30
Location:
Mickiewicz Hall, Auditorium Maximum (Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28 str.)
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September 2, 2024
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Mickiewicz Hall, Auditorium Maximum (Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28 str.)
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September
10:30
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11:30
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Mickiewicz Hall, Auditorium Maximum (Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28 str.)
From Signs of Language to Semioses of Life: Paradigms and Turns in Global Semiotics

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Mickiewicz Hall, Auditorium Maximum (Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28 str.)
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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
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Australia Hall, WLS (Dobra 55 street)
Alec Kozicki