Ireland, T. orcid.org/0000-0002-7845-8834 (2015) The spatiality of being. Biosemiotics, 8 (3). pp. 381-401. ISSN 1875-1342
Abstract
Space is a product of semiosis. It is a condition pertinent to an organism’s semiotic freedom, which is articulated by the organism as a consequence of its capacity to manipulate the world in the course of its unfolding interaction with its environment. Spatial configuration is thus the result of agency inherent in the organism-in-its-environment. Space, a consequence of social cohesion, is effected through constraints and processes of enaction which are semiotic. These processes are productive and offer architects a novel means by which to configure space, which they should embrace to articulate the nature of inhabitation. The model presented identifies activity as the essential building block to the generation of form. Modelled as a form of artificial life, swarm-like components, referred to as ‘actants’, represent discrete activities and self-configure according to differences in the environment they detect, to form a body-of-swarms. Thus, depicting the spatiality of being.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015. |
Keywords: | Space; Spatial organisation; Semiosis; Agency; Boundaries; Niches Self-organisation; Emergence |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Architecture (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 15 Jun 2022 15:53 |
Last Modified: | 15 Jun 2022 15:53 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s12304-014-9227-7 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:187466 |