“overlapping communities contend for visibility and for economic and political survival, the mosaic of different texts” (Jaworski & Thurlow 2009:29)

Space … is about contemporaneity (rather than temporal convening), it is about openness (rather than inevitability) and it is also about relations, fractures, discontinuities, practices of engagement. And this intrinsic relationality of the spatial is not just a matter of lines on a map; it is a cartography of power. Doreen Massey(2005: 85)

The construction of space in society is produced by cultural communication based on dialogue and text. Meaning is socially represented  understanding of spaces in society. ‘animated dialogue’ (Kahn, 2003) between ideas/images of space and the material properties/features of space. Henri Lefebvre (1991), describes three forms of space; mental representations, the physical world and the interaction through living in a space.

Massey, D. (2005). For Space. London: Sage.

Introducing Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Space, (2011)

Jaworski, A. and Thurlow, C. (eds.). (2010). Semiotic Landscapes: Text, Image, Space. London: Continuum.