Advanced Semiotics Masterclass

Understand how to use deep cultural insight to unlock powerful strategic solutions

This course is now delivered online as a series of live sessions which fully meet the learning objectives of face-to-face training.

Semiotics is renowned as a method of qualitative analysis and creative projection which helps consumer insight and branding people escape from a cage of conventional thinking: numbers-driven, linear, literal-minded, and supposedly rational. This Advanced Semiotics course is for people who are already aware of the basics of the semiotic approach to culture and communications and who wish to explore higher level and more emergent tools and applications. 

The Masterclass is planned to change with each iteration – presenting a range of advanced perspectives leading methodological development while engaging with how cultural change is currently impacting most dramatically on brands and organisations. New masters, new topics, new interactive opportunities to understand, articulate and transform brand thinking and communication. This year's Masterclass will engage with ideas of change and disruption in a post pandemic world of culture wars. We will look particularly at how the Residual / Dominant / Emergent Code Trajectory and Mapping can be used to track change and identify opportunities available to brands and businesses in times of significant cultural flux.

The experience of the day will be grounded on practical application of the tools and perspectives explored to one subject of strong topical relevance for brands, working within a matrix of recurring activities.

Learning outcomes


• Decoding brand, category and cultural meanings

• Understanding the contexts within which these meanings have to cut through executionally

• Strategic mapping of competitive spaces, trajectories of change, opportunities for disruptive innovation

• Engaging with the practicalities of recoding brand meanings to optimize their synergies with cultural and category evolution

• Exploring the critical frontiers where culture merges with technology and behaviour


Who will benefit

Marketing, insight and design specialists with a grounding in the basics of the semiotic approach; advertising and design agency planners; brand strategists and semiotic practitioners looking for new insight ideas, inspirations, and higher level tools and applications.

Those that already have a grounding in the basics

Testimonials

“Excellent opportunity to walk through some key semiotic theories with a real master practitioner.”

James Woodhead, SpaceDoctors
23-24 November 2016

“Insightful.”

Tracy Beswick, SpaceDoctors (Freelance)
23-24 November 2016

“A detailed discussion around the world of semiotics.”

Tom Pattison, Added Value
19-20 May 2016

“For those with a basic background/ understanding of semiotics, a wonderfully applicable crash-course in understanding the 'how to' and 'why/for what' of applied semiotics.”

Elisabeth Bennett, Fresh squeezed ideas
19-20 May 2016

“Very good style, open encouragement, commercially acute.”

Christine Daley, Ipsos Mori

“Really patient and flexible about diving deeper into areas the group was most interested in, immensely helpful!”

Yannie Fu, Clear Aisa