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Multiplication of signs and significances. It causes disorientation and Confusion

WHICH MEANING? CONFUSION

The European Quarter is full of contradictory signs which make the reading of space difficult.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The barriers of the building site are Blue and Yellow: the colors of Europe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two person look at the building site, confused

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can see the Friterie beyond the dunes of sand of the building site

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Despite the building site, the Sunday Market is still alive

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is a baby shoe hung up on the metal fence of  the building site: as a little Cinderella passed by

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is the European Summit and a street near the square is closed. A car left in the street was wrapped-up with the police tape

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The European Parliament Tourists go around the square with their souvenir blue bags

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is a temporary exibition in the square: it consists of a lot of temporary signage

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A street sign of "deviation" is located in the lawn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the Luxembourg square there is a signboards assault

WEIRD SIGNS

The temporary signage becomes permanent: it is always present, sometimes it is simply waiting its moment in a corner. It feels like something is always going to happen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The street signage is incomprehensible

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The street signage becomes crazy during the afterwork

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is a frame, but no street sign there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Half of a street sign was missing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two signs were fixed together with some Scotch tape

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is a big chaos around the building site. A sign was cut out to make space for another sign: signs cannibalism?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Someone printed a sign on a A4 sheet (an indication for the House of the European History) and glued it on a permanent traffic sign

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is a sign of direction but half of it is missing

ABANDONED SIGNS

This PRACTICE BECOMES AN EVERYDAY, REGULAR, "NORMAL" ACTIVITY BECAUSE OF ITS FURTHER REPETITION IN TIME AND SPACE: in this way the informal becomes institutionalised.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A traffic sign is abandoned near a wall: it lost his power and nobody takes him away

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some traffic barriers are waiting in the lawn to be used

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A big sign of the building site is now resting on the pavement

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The square is full of messages, but mainly of two kind: building site notices or frites notices.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Many traffic signs lie on the pavement, occupying the pedestrian area

TOO CONTROL, TOO SIGNAGE, TOO PROHIBITIONS

Where this happens, people comment leaving new signs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A person putted a cross on the prohibition of entering the park by bicycle: was this person a ordinary citizen or someone representing the authority?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A sign says that you CANNOT enter the park by bicycle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A person enters the Station by bicycle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The sign says you CANNOT enter the Station by bicycle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A person wrote "negligence?" on a sign of work in progress

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A corner of Eu Parliament stairs is enclosed by barriers, apparently for some (not visible) work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Someone drew a skate under the blue man silhouette on a warning traffic sign

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Someone commented putting a cross on the word "TRAVAIL" sculpt in the basement of the statue

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