Mõisaruumi ümbertähendustamisest
On the re-semiotization of manor space

Summary/Abstract: This article studies the signification and re-semiotization related to manor estates and houses in Estonia. I outline a frame of analysis that integrates basic elements of spatial signification and layers of sociocultural semiosis. Dynamics of these elements and layers appears in the variety and fluctuations of the significance of spatial environment, as well as in purposeful designs of meaningful environments. Handling of manors has been practically and ideologically important in Estonia for a considerable amount of time. The relation to the space of manors has been a central trait in the formation of Estonian culture, on both individual as well as cultural levels of reflection. Exemplary here for spatial semiotic dilemmas for re-semiotization is the case of the entrance to a school located in a specific manor house. The significance of this seemingly elementary case ranges from establishing social relations to the actualization of the history and design of the school experience of children.

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