Cocchiarella L. (Ed.) The Visual Language of Technique, Vol. 2: Heritage and Expectations in Research

Springer, 2015. — 179 p. — ISBN: 9783319053400, 9783319053417The book is inspired by the second seminar in a cycle connected to the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Politecnico di Milano. "Working with the Image Description Processing Prediction" was the motto of this meeting, aiming to point out the role of Visual Language not only in describing reality, but also in supporting the thinking processes in Science (prediction), in Art (invention), in Technical studies (prevision) and in identifying and working on both visible and invisible phenomena. As John Barrow states, "So often a picture is better than a thousand words" and "The visual language is the most natural, while the other language could reasonably be considered as 'postscripts' to the human story". The essays included in the volume (from lectures, the poster session, interviews and round table) will show the wide range of technical possibilities connected with the present use of the Image, especially thanks to Computer Graphics, from 3D Modeling to Augmented Reality, while also offering a glimpse of interesting theoretical perspectives. In the end, as noted by Martin Heidegger, the word "theory" not only comes from the Ancient Greek verb "theoreo", that is "to see, to observe", but it also echoes the words "theos" and "thea", namely "god" and "goddess", and above all, it shares the root with the term "aletheia", which is the "truth", which is not far from the ultimate goal of research.Setting the Matter
Working with the Image: Description Processing Prediction. Luigi Cocchiarella
Colloquium with the Editorial Staff of the Science Magazine FOCUS. Luigi Cocchiarella
Cognitive Power of Visual Images. Giuseppe Caglioti
Visual Language in Research: Between Theory and Applications
Interactive Sketch Interpreter for Geometric Modeling. Kunio Kondo and Taichi Watanabe
New Visualization Techniques in AEC-BIM More than Modeling. Clark A. Cory
Image Synthesis in Consideration of a Human Visual System. Yasushi Yamaguchi
Walking in Virtual Reality: Flexible Spaces and Other Techniques. Khrystyna Vasylevska, Iana Podkosova and Hannes Kaufmann
Archaeoastronomy in Action: The Role of Images in Understanding and Promoting Astronomical Heritage. Giulio Magli
Images in Research: Iconographies and Experiences from the PHD School of the Politecnico di Milano
Reading Results from Computer Simulations. Tommaso Solcia
Thoughts in Strokes: Archive Drawings and Analytical Sketches. Iva Stoyanova
The Knowledge of Images and the Historical Research on Existing Buildings. Giorgia Ottaviani and Lucia Pierro
Image as a Document and Vehicle of Knowledge. Anna Antonini, Kermican Apak, Giulia Brun, Giorgio Calegari,Silvia Colombo, Patrizia Della Vedova, Valentina Sumini,
Sandra Tonna, Francesco Toso, Paola Travaglio and Elisa Valli
Images as Moment of Knowledge. Giulia Campanini and Elisa Fain
The Skyscraper of Piazza Repubblica in Milan. Giorgio Calegari and Valentina Sumini
Land Survey Through Description and Beyond Description. Matteo Giuseppe Romanato
The Visual Language Technique in Urban Studies Research: Investigation, Interpretation and Communication of City Complexity. Aldo Treville, Raffaella Cegna and Luca Vandini
Rethinking the Power of Maps. Stefano Bovio and Alessandro Musetta
Audio-Maps to Manage Moving Territories. Embedding Strategies of Musical Synchronization to Qualify Sensitive Areas of Urban Informality. Raffaele Pè
Context Versus Context-Less and the Mechanism of Relations. Experimental Research in Progress. Raana Saffari Siahkali