Designing Space Systems in Multi-Viewpoints Semiotics
Daniel Galarreta · Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks · 2006
In this paper we examine how complex objects such as space systems can be apprehended by a semiotic approach. Instead of considering this system from a functional point of view or from an economical one etc., we chose to consider the system just as a signifying object whose meaning is to be a space system whatever the point of view we select. We are therefore led to propose multi-viewpoints semiotics to analyse and specify the conditions which allows virtual views of the systems to correspond to one and the same object. We introduce the concept of identity in order to formulate such conditions. Epistemological justifications are proposed.