Semiotics artifacts, space and community: a case study on pinholes

Given the fracturing of virtual and physical spaces, young people are less involved in their local surrounding spaces. Yet, investing the community space is related to sense of community and elicits social inclusion. We explore the complex relations among social inclusion, sense of community, spaces and artifacts through a case study on pinholes. Pinholes appeared to be powerful semiotics artifacts, simple to use, that allow equally empowered groups of participants of different ages and cultures to jointly explore, produce and share meanings about their territories and identities. Keywords Semiotic artifact, sense of community, physical and virtual spaces, pinholes. ACM Classification Keywords J.4. [Social sciences]: Psychology, Sociology; J.5. [Arts and humanities]: Performing arts (photography).

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ACMIDC
• Authors: Françoise Decortis, Laura Lentini
• Keywords: ACMIDC 2008, Elicits Social Inclusion, Human Computer Interaction, Local Surrounding Spaces, Social Inclusion