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The proposed work investigates the relationship between the word and its possible two-dimensional representation. Oral production and graphic-visual production are very different from each other, but they are a full-fledged language, because they are characterized by a code and a content of the message.
In particular, it examines words-actions of architectural design thinking. These are graphic compositions that explain the meaning of an action and allude to a verbal description.
The image becomes a graphic metaphor of the word action, with experimental and explorative intent. The compositional act establishes a bi-univocal relationship between the meaning and the image. The difference between the meaning and the hypothetical representation produces a solicitation of the imagination.
The goal is to support and reiterate the centrality of Design as a primary operation of architectural thinking and all the compositional-design operations. It is the concrete place in which thought is manifested and produced. There is no verbal thought and then a graphic thought, as an exterior form of the former whose purpose is only communicative. Drawing is itself Thought (hence Word), a place where the idea is formed, produced and evolved.
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Cianci, M.G., Calisi, D., Colaceci, S., Molinari, M. (2020). Imagination and Representation: Metaphor of Designing Thought. In: Cicalò, E. (eds) Proceedings of the 2nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Image and Imagination. IMG 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1140. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41018-6_31
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