Gatherings 2026

Where

The Gathering will be hosted by the University of Sheffield’s School of Architecture and Landscape, which is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

The gathering will be held across two venues. The Arts Tower (home to the School of Architecture and Landscape) and the home for the Faculty of Social Sciences; known as the Wave.

As always, we welcome paper proposals on all themes in biosemiotics, semiotic concepts and models of living systems. The typical Gathering will take place over four days (Tuesday 28th - Friday 31st July 2026) at the Wave.

On the Monday 27th July a special one day pre-event will be held at the Arts Tower, dedicated to presentations and discussion deliberating connections/agency between built environment and nature, and effects on non-/human occupants, and how biosemiotics may advance thinking of these central topics of existence, deliberated as matters of communication and signification, and of sign processes.

More information

More information on the official website.