Imagination and representation: Metaphor of designing thought

Abstract

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.