La rocca Paolina di Perugia. Da baluardo dell’inaccessibilità a landmark dell’accessibilità

[EN] Built in the Perugia acropolis in the mid-sixteenth century as a physical expression of the oppressive reprisal of Pope Paul III against the city’s seigniory of the Baglioni family, the Rocca Paolina has always been hated by the Perugia people who, on several occasions during the nineteenth century, did not hesitate to demolish it. The historical events of this fortified architecture are ambiguously linked with its iconographic value, oscillating around a balance in continuous evolution that sees it on the one hand as a fortress of inaccessibility and on the other hand as a flywheel of accessibility.Belardi, P.; Martini, L.; Menchetelli, V. (2020). La rocca Paolina di Perugia. Da baluardo dell’inaccessibilità a landmark dell’accessibilità. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 1053-1060. https://doi.org/10.4995/FORTMED2020.2020.114221053106

Immagini? Image and imagination between representation, communication, education and psychology

Il 27 e il 28 novembre 2017 si è tenuto a Bressanone, presso la Facoltà di Scienze del-la Formazione della Libera Università di Bolzano, il convegno internazionale e inter-disciplinare IMMAGINI? Image and imagi-nation between representation, communica-tion, education and psychology / On 27 and 28 November 2017, the Faculty of Education of the Free University of Boz-en-Bolzano held in Brixen-Bressanone the international and interdisciplinary confer-ence IMMAGINI? Image and imagination between representation, communication, ed-ucation and psychology

Images and more images

Today everything happens through images, and a lot happens through photographic images. These can be used in multiple and contradictory ways: some eminently aesthetic, which retain the purpose of electing the image as an artistic artifact, or mainly cultural, which retain the purpose of documenting a significant aspect of reality, are frequently overridden by purely functional uses, which exploit the image for utilitarian purposes, or simply self-representative uses, which record useless moments of human existence only to legitimize it. This is the natural consequence of an epochal social change: the production of photographic images, once the prerogative of a few, is now within everyone’s reach. Image overload is the first and most evident consequence of the democratization of the production of images which, once their lives have ended, tend to be relegated to the entropic oblivion of images stored forever, thus adding to the hypertrophic mass of digital data stored but not used. The recovery of control over this visual hyper-productivity can only pass through the reactivation of our critical capacity

Multiple Images—Notes on Graphic Cataloguing

This article offers a critical interpretation of the historical and contemporary context underlying the purposes and the methods associated with the organisation of data and information in the various fields of knowledge by means of graphical classification. Essentially, the act of listing and enumeration allows the simultaneous exploration of different possibilities; it offers a privileged view of the world and facilitates effective problem solving. Graphical classification enhances the organisation of knowledge in a systematic and scientific manner, suggesting the logical inferences from which conjectures and theories may be formulated. It therefore constitutes an irreplaceable aid in the exercise of thought

INTANGIBLE ARCHEOLOGY. Architectural surveying and digital reconstruction of the Porsenna tomb as described by Baldassarre Orsini (1732-1810)

The contribution presents the intangible archaeological survey of an architecture as majestic as it is legendary: the tomb of the Etruscan lucumone (king) Lars Porsenna. Among the historical studies devoted to this monument, the contribution focuses on the interpretative description provided by the learned Perugian Baldassarre Orsini (1732-1810), which differs from the precedents for the concrete character and the attention he gives to the proportional and constructive aspects, as well as being accompanied by six explanatory tables. Digital restitution, as well as being a disciplinary opportunity able to suggest an unprecedented understanding of the archaeological survey, has led to the creation of an immersive video animation and a plastic model obtained through 3D additive printing, which marked the multimedia section of a dedicated exhibition initiative

Disegno e Design. Declinazioni di termini e attualizzazioni di pratiche / Drawing and Design. Declensions of Terms and Practices Actualizations

Il numero 11 di diségno si pone l’obiettivo di far crescere e maturare il confronto tra il Disegno e il Design, di ragionare sui limiti e sui margini di due discipline che trattano l’una della rappresentazione del mondo degli oggetti e l’altra della loro costruzione, aprendo ulteriori spazi sulla comunicazione visiva e sulla progettazione visuale. Il numero è curato da Massimiliano Ciammaichella e Valeria Menchetelli, entrambi impegnati da tempo negli insegnamenti del Disegno presso i corsi di Design, e quindi coinvolti nelle esperienze di collaborazione nell’ambito della progettazione grafica e della comunicazione visiva, della complessa ricerca sui linguaggi grafici e della cultura visuale. Issue 11 of diségno aims to make the comparison between Drawing and Design grow and mature, to think about the limits and margins of two disciplines that deal with the representation of the world of objects and the other with their construction, opening up further spaces on visual communication and visual design. The issue is edited by Massimiliano Ciammaichella and Valeria Menchetelli, both long since engaged in the teaching of Drawing in Design courses, and therefore involved in collaborative experiences in the field of graphic design and visual communication, in the complex research on graphic languages and visual culture

Chapter Psico-grafica. Dialoghi tra le scienze grafiche e le scienze psicologiche

The 43rd UID conference, held in Genova, takes up the theme of ‘Dialogues’ as practice and debate on many fundamental topics in our social life, especially in these complex and not yet resolved times. The city of Genova offers the opportunity to ponder on the value of comparison and on the possibilities for the community, naturally focused on the aspects that concern us, as professors, researchers, disseminators of knowledge, or on all the possibile meanings of the discipline of representation and its dialogue with ‘others’, which we have broadly catalogued in three macro areas: History, Semiotics, Science / Technology. Therefore, “dialogue” as a profitable exchange based on a common language, without which it is impossible to comprehend and understand one another; and the graphic sign that connotes the conference is the precise transcription of this concept: the title ‘translated’ into signs, derived from the visual alphabet designed for the visual identity of the UID since 2017. There are many topics which refer to three macro sessions: - Witnessing (signs and history) - Communicating (signs and semiotics) - Experimenting (signs and sciences) Thanks to the different points of view, an exceptional resource of our disciplinary area, we want to try to outline the prevailing theoretical-operational synergies, the collaborative lines of an instrumental nature, the recent updates of the repertoires of images that attest and nourish the relations among representation, history, semiotics, sciences