WRITTEN THOUGHT · SURFACING · BRIDGING · COMPLETED

Academic Publications

Written thought

Questions it asks

Surfacing: noticing the codes that govern the environments we already inhabit.

Bridging: how meaning travels across material, cultural, and linguistic systems.

Stage

Completed

Years

2021–2025

Place

Peer-reviewed journals & volumes

Role

Author

The encounter

Held to peer review

The published work is where the research is held to its most exacting standard: peer review by the semiotics community. Between 2021 and 2025 I published eight pieces across the field’s major venues, including Semiotica, Sign Systems Studies, the Tartu Semiotics Library, and edited Springer volumes, with one article appearing in Chinese translation. The publications are the spine of the doctoral research and the evidence that its claims hold beyond a single thesis.

What was made

Three threads of published work

The publications fall into three threads.

Techno-living spaces and affordances, the central thread of the doctoral research:

A semiotic model for smart home affordances (IASS-AIS, 2021), modelling the smart home as a designer-artefact-user system.
Umwelt in an umwelt (Sign Systems Studies, 2023; Chinese-language edition, 2025), on how an inhabitant co-develops within immersive virtual environments and the paradox of reality and hyperreality.
Affordance and Ton: The meaning-carriers of semiosis (Concepts for Semiotics II, 2023), bridging the engineering and semiotic definitions of affordance.

De-sign and ecological inhabitation:

Earthships as a de-sign process to harmonize with the environment (Semiotica, 2025), the flagship application of de-sign theory, reading a dwelling built from repurposed waste as a process aimed at harmony between human inhabitation and ecological relations.

Artistic texts and symbolism, a thread running parallel to the techno-living work:

Emergent imputative symbols: In one word (Explorations in Dynamic Semiosis, Springer, 2024), on how a single word can take on symbolic function.
Storytelling through symbolism: Ouroboros as cyclical structure of cinematic text (2025), reading the ouroboros as a structuring device in film.
Observing inner speech in the meaning-making through visual artistic texts, co-authored with Aleksander Fadeev and Krista Tomson (Springer, 2025), grown out of the inner-speech research group.

What it shows

Range held by one apparatus

The publication record demonstrates range held together by a single apparatus. A smart home, an immersive virtual environment, an Earthship, a film, a single word, and the inner speech of a viewer are very different objects, but each is read through the same semiotic toolbox the doctoral research develops. The Chinese-language edition of Umwelt in an umwelt is a small proof of the portfolio’s recurring concern in its most literal form: meaning travelling across a linguistic and cultural boundary. The full citations, with DOIs, are on the Academic Foundation page; this entry is the body-of-work view.

Venues: Semiotica (De Gruyter) · Sign Systems Studies (University of Tartu) · Tartu Semiotics Library · Springer Nature edited volumes · Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá) · IASS-AIS
One article published in Chinese translation (2025)
Full chronological list with DOIs on the Academic Foundation page
ORCID: 0000-0002-3747-7537

Peer-reviewed semiotics research · 2021–2025