| Sumario: | This paper is part of an investigation about Argentine design and material-semiotic culture in the 20th century. It reflects on the material vestiges of urban space design, focusing on the signage systems in use in La Plata city. In order to create our own collection, a fieldwork was carried out based on signage markers survey, listing and photographing, from which a diverse object universe emerged. So, we have had different elements indicating space, not only signs, a collection that opened new questions about the categories of analysis for the (re)construction of contexts - spaces, places - in which objects have sense of use. Thus, based on the existing literature about urban forms, marking and signals, in relation to the photographs obtained in situ, new open categories series emerge. Those categories can be useful to systematize an analysis, providing conceptual tools for the research, taking into account its potential, not only for the study of the case but also the reflection on the environment in which we live. The study follows analytical lines proposed by various fields authors, such as Kevin Lynch, Marius Quintana Creus, Milton Santos and Ruedi Baur. It generates a classification scale of objects that could be an approximation not only to delve deeper into theoretical frameworks but also to the recognition of object needs in urban space. And also, to their discussion to bet future collaborative project developments, forming habits and practices that facilitate the recognition of the place and, based on this, better forms of coexistence in space.
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