This week
- Lecture
- 12 April 2027 Signage and the state
- Slides
- Open the deck
- Specimens
I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated.
The Swansea road sign primary- Due
- The reconstruction 16 April 2027
Bench
- Material
- a clause and a sign
- Operation
- reading one against the other
- Leaves
- the workflow step where the two parted
A standard is a document that says what a sign must say. A sign is a thing on a wall. This bench is the gap.
Before
Bring a clause. Any published guidance that prescribes wording for public signage will do, in any language, and the more specific it is about individual signs the better.
In the bench
Put the clause and the artefact next to each other and answer three questions in order:
Who was obliged? Who actually produced the sign? What sat between them — a contractor, a sign shop, a procurement form, an email?
The third question is the one that pays. In the Swansea case the entire mechanism is an email nobody read, and no translation system was involved at any point.
Afterwards
The reconstruction is due this Friday. If tonight changed which artefact you want to argue about, change it; the deadline is for the argument, not for the first thing you picked.
The spec
What you bring to the session. Written so a reader can tell whether it has been met without asking you.
- you have the clause and the sign side by side and can quote both
- you can say who was obliged by the clause and who actually made the sign
- you can name the workflow step where the two came apart
Teaching team
- Ines Barrantes — convenor