City as a Personality and its manifestation in Urban Semiotics
"City as a Personality and its manifestation in Urban Semiotics" is the title of the students´ work in the 2nd year of the Master study of Spatial planning. In urban semiotics, city is approached as a text based on the grammary of spatial patterns and structures generating meaning. Students have to analyze chosen city as a metaphoric personality: its historic memory, visual face, architectural language as well as social climate and underlying values
The outcome is written essay and multimedial presentation (movie, interactive presentation...).
Theoretical background of this approach is depicted here: City as Personality
and here is an example of the students movie:
Methodology and the philosophy of the project were also presented during the festival urbanE.T. in Rača: here is the presentation dedicated to semiotic analysis of visual face of Rača