The conceptualization of a new semiological/semiotic model for the understanding of the matters of the causality and the meaningfulness in/of the built environment

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2022-11-09

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Built environment, consisting of urban spaces and architectures, manifests behaviors, thoughts and feelings, and experiences of all the social-individuals of a society living in itself, through all kinds of its urban and architectural things, that is, its objects, spaces, and components, which bear very significant meanings, that is, denotative,connotative, and also deep meanings, in terms of the daily lives of these people in the environment. Therefore, each of them could be considered as a sign associated with symbols, and correspondingly with the arche(i)types and arche(i)typal contents; in other words, any could be handled as both a sign structure and a deep structure. That is to say, a built environment, in this respect, could be examined through the sign studies, especially Semiology of Ferdinand de Saussure and Semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce, as both are two main ones of these studies, and through the studies in the field of depth psychology, for example, Analytical Psychology of Carl Gustav Jung. In this way, it could be possible to discuss not only any built environment together with its physical, spatial, social, cultural, and historical aspects but also the societies. However, recent semiological and semiotic approaches seem insufficient in this context; because, none of them carry out their sign studies together with depth psychology. This points to the lack of a deep (/depth) psychological ground in urban and architectural semiology and semiotics by addressing not only the matter of the causality in terms of human behaviors and experiences, but also the matter of the meaningfulness in/of a built environment in terms of the individual and social lives there. By defining this lack/deficiency as a problem and by taking these matters into account, this thesis focuses on a solution which is based on a method, that is, a way to develop a conceptual model aiming to provide the contribution or the integration of the arche(i)types into the sign studies for urban and architectural perspectives in the context of built environment by assuming that all these arche(i)types render a deep (/depth) psychological ground in this regard. As a result, the thesis presents, in the end, a new approach, which has a deep (/depth) psychological ground, to the sign studies in order to be used for the urban and architectural theories concerning the built environments.

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Built environment, Semiology and Semiotics, Depth Psychology, Human behaviors and experiences

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E. Eren, “The conceptualization of a new semiological/semiotic model for the understanding of the matters of the causality and the meaningfulness in/of the built environment,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2022.