Tags are a specific class of graffiti used to define territorial ownership and boundaries: tags are typically not sophisticated, but rather are applied in quantity - so you may see the same tag sprayed dozens of times down a railway line, or around a collection of streets.
When i’ve spoken to graffiti artists about tagging they describe how the placement of a tag in a particularly high or dangerous place can confer status - and in the modern age the placement of a tag in a location that is likely to be Instagrammed and shared is particularly valuable.
There is a whole social structure to how tags operate, and a violence when they are overwritten, painted upon, or defaced. Tags make the implicit and tacit both visible and quantifiable.
Use your sixty seconds today to consider how territory operates within your Organisation: how do you differentiate spaces - of ownership or power?
Are there visible signs of who ‘owns’ a space, or is it your implicit knowledge that allows you to navigate this.
How does this knowledge relate to your sense of safety or belonging?
Some more of my writing on Graffiti here, with two ‘graffiti stories’
https://julianstodd.wordpress.com/2018/12/03/graffiti-story-1/
https://julianstodd.wordpress.com/2018/12/07/graffiti-story-2/
Day #203