Browsing by Subject "Meaning"

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Colour semantics in residential interior architecture on different interior types
(Wiley, 2020-04) Ulusoy, B.; Olguntürk, Nilgün; Aslanoğlu, Rengin
Colour meaning is a challenging decision in interior architecture during the design process; however, specific meanings within different interior types have not yet been investigated. This study explored colour meaning in the context of residential interior types (eg, bedroom) under controlled conditions using 42 Munsell colours varying in hues, value, and chroma levels, with 14 adjectives (eg, comfortable, pleasant). The results demonstrate that some colours convey the same meanings (eg, vulgar) regardless of type of room; however, others (eg, beautiful) tend to require more complicated and sophisticated colour applications in different residential interiors. The study findings proved that colour meaning in RITs can be affected by all colour attributes. All colours that are named orange and red are selected for both negative and positive meanings. Colours that are named purple are selected less and only for negative connotations. The findings present an overall colour meaning guide for these residential interior types, which will be beneficial for decision makers (interior architects, designers, users) and colour researchers.
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The design of the book as object
(1997) Steel, Jeremy Charles
The book is an important cultural product that, as well as being a site in which text and image can be found, is first and foremost a physical object. To access a text there must always be a physical support through which the text is embodied. When this physical support takes the form of a book, it becomes a designed and coercive space. It also becomes a contributor to the ‘polyvocality’ of the text such that rather than the text being a multiplicity, the book as a whole becomes a multiplicity. This habitation of the text by the materiality of the book occurs because the physicality and visuality of the book helps determine readership. It also contributes to the interpretation and meaning that the reader believes the text possesses. The aim of this thesis is to explore and articulate questions as to how the materiality of the book comes to inhabit the text and what the designer’s response should be. It will be argued that designers should declare their presence in their work, that they should design the whole book and not just the cover, and also that they should seek a design that respects cultural diversity and historical change. The core of this thesis is the nine books I have designed. As such, they are my response to the semiotic and semantic load that the materiality of the book brings to the text.
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Hakikat ya da doğruluk üzerine : Harun Tepe'den felsefi kavramlar üzerine önemli bir çalışma
(1996) Çotuksöken, Betül
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Half asleep, winded losses : a visual survey on photography, memory and meaning
(2012) Bilgenoğlu, Begüm
As!Henry! Bergson! points! out,!memory!images! that!we! have! stored!in! our! minds! throughout!our!lives! trigger!our!past!experiences!and!help! form! the! moment! we! live! in. This! thesis! is! an! attempt! to challenge! my! perception! about! the! issues! that! are! bodily disturbing! for! me! in! my! memories.! It! is! related!with! the!level!of!intimacy!and! the!blurred!line!between!private!and! public!that!makes!me!uncomfortable.!This!thesis!explores!this!point!through! a! photo]text! project! consisting of different! sets! of! photographs! that! trigger! my!own!memories!through!wandering!on!the!body!and!outside. The!project!aims!to!activate!in!the!viewer!an!inner!journey!with the!help!of! close]up!body!images!and!photographs!taken!outside.!These!images,!which! come from!different!time,!space!and!bodies, are!grouped!into!sets!that!form! new! wholes.! These! visual! sets! are! accompanied! by! lines! from! various! unpublished!poems!in!order!to!simulate!the!audience!to!activate!them!with! their!own!memories and!create!new!readings.
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On Strawsonian contexts
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2005) Akman, V.
P.F. Strawson proposed in the early seventies a threefold distinction regarding how context bears on the meaning of 'what is said' when a sentence is uttered. The proposal was somewhat tentative and, being aware of this aspect, Strawson himself raised various questions to make it more adequate. In this paper, we review Strawson's scheme, note his concerns, and add some of our own. We also defend its essence and recommend it as an insightful entry point re the interplay of intended meaning and context.
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Pairing colours in residential architecture for different interior types
(John Wiley & Sons, 2021-03-09) Ulusoy, B.; Aslanoğlu, Rengin
Most colour studies focus on single colour effects; however, interiors are multi-coloured environments and contemporary users are looking for more innovative colour schemes in interiors. Interior architects rely on their own subjective experience and instincts when they take up the challenge. This study aims to reveal colour semantics of paired colours on walls for different residential interior types (eg, living room) as a second part of the previous study conducted by the same authors. Both studies explore colour semantics through 42 Munsell colours (with variety of hues, value, and chroma levels) with 14 adjectives (eg, beautiful, unpleasant, cold) under controlled conditions. The predecessor study had explored single colour meanings, however, in this study, participants were asked to pair colours for the same residential interior types on the same semantic scales. Thus, its results can be compared to single colour data on different residential interior types through same methodology and participants. Results reveal that all colour attributes affect semantics paired wall colours. Orange is associated with negative meanings more whereas yellow hue induces positive meanings more for all adjective pairs, except cold-warm and feminine-masculine. For positive association, lighter colours and less saturated colours are selected more compared to saturated and darker colours. Comparing results of single colour study and the current study reveals that pairs cannot be anticipated through single colours for all residential interior types and adjectives, and positive adjectives tend to require different colours than their single associations in their pairs.
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Reading product de(sign): an inquiry into discursive aspects of design culture
(1996) Timur, Şebnem
Every design can be considered as an expression, and every expression conveys meanings to the receiver, of different sorts. The aim of this study is to demonstrate the ways of meaning production and consumption through the material forms of our contemporary culture, focusing on product and graphic design. The product's discourse is articulated and received both through the material being of the object, and its representations or reflections on graphical forms. Firstly, in order to demonstrate the existence of the discourse of the designed item, the process is conceptualized as a process of communication, assigning the production stage the role of encoding and the consumption, that of decoding. Secondly, advertising is included in the discussion as an intermediary level of communication with its own independent system of signification. Thirdly, the relationship between design and language is explored through the efforts of integrating semantics in the design process as a methodology. Then related with the debate on language, the finished product's functioning as a sign within the system of signification of semiotics is discussed. Lastly, examples of different readings of design are presented with implications for future readings.
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Ripping the text apart at different seams
(Stanford University Humanities Center, 1994) Akman, V.; Pound, E.; Eliot, T. S.
This is a brief reply to Herbert A. Simon's fine paper "Literary Criticism: A Cognitive Approach'', Stanford Humanties Review, Special Supplement ("Bridging the Gap'' Where Cognitive Science Meets Literary Criticism), vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 1-26, Spring 1994.
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The role of schemas in understanding places
(METU, 2009) İmamoğlu, Çağrı