The scientific-disciplinary contents of the course concern the representation of the habitat in its multiple scalar (landscape, city and architecture), thematic (semantic) and dimensional (form) declinations.
The representation is studied as a cognitive medium of the real space (material and immaterial) and of the imagined space, in its different phenomenal dimensions; the drawing, therefore, as a "tool" for the analysis and modification of existing values, in a historical-critical context.
The main objective of the course (12 cfu, first year, first semester) is the learning and experimentation of the various theoretical-operational components hidden in the idea of drawing; "from the spoon to the city" (recalling a concept used in the 20th century). (recalling a concept used in the last century).
In this context, the course provides theoretical and practical knowledge about drawing, its direct and instrumental methodologies, its procedures and techniques (analog and digital), metric, morphological and thematic restitution.
The didactic program of the course is divided into three main cognitive-elaborative areas:
- Methods and Techniques of Drawing;
- History of Representation;
- Multimedia Representation of Knowledge.
These three thematic areas of drawing integrate each other and form a single teaching (Habitat Drawing) to which corresponds a single final assessment.
In particular:
- in the "Methods and Techniques of Drawing" area the main methods (direct and instrumental) to know, measure and design the habitat will be deepened and experimented. In this context, the course provides theoretical and practical knowledge on drawing, on its direct and instrumental methodologies, its procedures and techniques (analog and digital), metric, morphological and thematic restitution. The scientific principles and methods of projective geometry will be verified and related to drawing, that is, the ways "of representing", oriented to the appropriate communication of graphic language. This means experimenting the various potentialities of the methods of representation in the conscious conformation of spatial models, in a historical-critical context;
- in the field of "History of Representation" the above mentioned "methods and techniques of representation" will be contextualized and studied within a historical-evolutionary path, in which the historical data can be critically elaborated. This analysis will be particularly focused on analyzing the relationship between the habitat and the digital techno-culture, in which the role of the medium of representation plays a fundamental role. In this context, the latest techno-cultural developments of drawing in the digital environment will be studied;
- in the theoretical-operational field of "Multimedia Representation of Knowledge" (the core of the course) we will proceed, finally, to the synthesis of all the acquired knowledge, until the elaboration of the theme of the year, focused on the representation of a significant example of habitat observation. The theme of the year will be represented by images in which the methods and techniques of graphic, infographic and multimedia language will be experimented, applied to the representation process carried out.