ENTRE DÉSORDRE ET ADAPTATION : ÉLÉMENTS POUR UNE LECTURE SÉMIOTIQUE DE L’HABITER FLEXIBLE À BHAR LAZRAK À TUNIS 

This paper undertakes a semiotic analysis of spatial flexibility in the Bhar Lazrak neighborhood, located on the periphery of Tunis. The empirical corpus comprises spatio-temporal sequences examined across three scales of observation : a primary street, a secondary street, and a tertiary alleyway. Our analysis interrogates the ways in which residents reinterpret, adapt, and transform their urban environment in response to social, economic, and political constraints. Grounded in the theoretical corpus of spatial semiotics articulated by Barthes, Eco, and Lefebvre, and engaging with the notion of resilience within the doma ... continue reading->

Keywords: Spatial semiotics; spatial flexibility; vernacular urbanism; resilience; spatial appropriation; identity assertion