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