Transdisciplinarity in objects: Spatial signification from graffiti to hegemony

From ‘theories of Hegemony’ to ‘hegemony Analysis’ in International Relations

Spatial analysis of graffiti in San Francisco

Graffiti, as a social phenomenon, has been with us since people first began painting on cave walls. Our responses to graffiti range from recognition of artistry, to interpreting it as a sign of urban decay and disorder. Major cities respond to tax-payers with this latter response by providing graffiti abatement programs, often at substantial cost; thus, understanding and mitigating the causes o...

From Circles to Nets: On the Signification of Spatial Sound Imagery in New Music

As Bas van Fraassen observes in his introduction to the philosophy of time and space, ‘‘with respect to space, it is not easy to make a plausible preliminary list of basic relations’’ (van Fraassen 1985). And yet we try: the number of studies of spatial topics has gradually increased with the evergrowing variety of thematic subcategories and types of approaches. In the domain of music, theorist...

A Semantic Approach to Urban Graffiti from Semiotics Viewpoint

City is the most complicated and tangible creature of man. There is a critical mutual communicationbetween human and city; and the effect of one’ living environment is beyond question. Graffiti is a new urbanphenomenon, which has drawn attention in light of its connection with protestation culture and street art. Thanks tosymbolism of graffiti, the artists have added mysterious aspects to their...

Challenges in Spatial Data Infrastructure research: a role for transdisciplinarity?

The field of Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is developing and approaches rapidly a “critical mass” of more or less operational SDIs. The purpose of the paper is to anticipate the possible impact of the maturing SDI field on its research agenda. Initial initiatives were predominantly techno centred whereas present initiatives are generally placed within current practices and developments in t...