Between sign and symbol: a difference that affects the axiology of the cultural heritage

Abstract

Concern about the reductionism that exists in the field of urban architectural cultural heritage, which is installed - in the practice of conservation - in a positivist thinking, illustrated and object, requires conceptual theoretical reflections intense and deep in the field discipline, facing the implicit territorial urban complexity in the preservation of this heritage. Theories have shown propose transformative looks, and conceptual processes that nourish the field of official imagery and popular, also show renovations, but the weight of the instituted, against the not instituted, alternative and pop, is superior, despite the apparent progress, the reality is rhythmically by rigid and obsolete dynamics. A deep the foundational problem review, locates the thinking in the field of semiotics, where the difference between a sign and symbol as a source of building a concept and object-based, limited and static definition of cultural heritage property, or as a source a concept and a systemic, unlimited and dynamics of this definition.