Is it Real? Structuring Reality by Means of Signs

Zeynep Onur is a Professor in the Department of Architecture at Çankaya University, Ankara, Turkey. Her specific research areas are semiotic studies in architecture and architectural education. She co-authored the book Modern Sonrası Mimarlık Üzerine Notlar (with Z. Tanalı, 2008), and is the editor of the architectural monography of the Turkish architect Ziya Tanalı (2010).Eero Tarasti is a Finnish musicologist and semiologist, who served as a Professor of Musicology at the University of Helsinki between 1984 and 2016. Tarasti has written and edited numerous books encompassing a semiotic approach to music. He also served as the President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies between 2004 and 2014.İlhami Sığırcı is a Professor in the Faculty of Sciences and Letters at the University of Kırıkkale, Turkey. He completed his Master’s, DEA and doctoral education in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toulouse Le Mirail, France. He has published five books, in addition to a number of articles and papers on linguistics, semiotics and translation.Papatya Nur Dökmeci Yörükoğlu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Interior Architecture at Çankaya University, Ankara, Turkey, where she teaches design studio, courses on indoor environment, architectural acoustics and soundscape. Her current academic research focuses on soundscapes, indoor environmental quality assessment, acoustic comfort and auditory perception, as well as semiotic analysis through soundscape perspective.