1st Edition

The Semiotics of Movement in Space

By Robert James McMurtrie Copyright 2017
292 Pages 19 Color & 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 19 Color & 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 19 Color & 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Semiotics of Movement in Space explores how people move through buildings and interact with objects in space. Focusing on visitors to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, McMurtrie analyses and interprets movement and space relations to highlight new developments and applications of spatial semiotics as he proposes that people’s movement options have the potential to transform the... Read more

1. Paving the Way: Theories, terms and texts

2. Modelling Movement in Space as a Semogenic System: The discourse-semantic and expression strata

3. Modelling Movement in Space as a Semogenic System: The hodogrammatical stratum

4. Framing and Reframing Exhibition Space: Viewing stations, isoglosses and facial orientation

5. Points of Departure and Connection: Theme, spatiotaxis and intersemiotic connection

6. Transforming Space into Place: Rhythm and occupation value

7. Interacting in Exhibition Space: (Dis)aligning with the semiotic designer

8. Negotiation the Authorial Voice: Spatial engagement and graduation

9. Repressing and Experiencing Perceptual Structures: Assigning participatory rules

10. Exploratory Exhibition SpaceS: A child’s perspective

11. Movement in Restaurants and Cafés: Sites of performance and display

12. Retracing our Steps and Moving Forward

Biography

Robert James McMurtrie is a PhD from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in Multimodality and Spatiogrammatics.