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The publication Horizons of Interest is conceived as a theoretical material for deeper understanding of visual imagination and art creation. The monograph opens the interdisciplinary dialogue not only about the image and its related visuality, but also technical processing and educational processes both in art and with art. The aim is to explore the contemporary relationship between education and visual communication in contexts which emphasise intercultural strategies and promote active citizenship. The publication combines the theoretical frame from the field of art, philosophy, sociology, education, and the positive practice in art museums and intercultural studies. The interdisciplinary feature of the texts allows us to address intercultural issues supporting the idea of being an active part of the interpretation of artistic languages. The use of diversified languages and media allows the broadening of interdisciplinary channels and modes of dialogue, provided that there is effective accessibility (both physical and cultural) to the various types of visual-artistic communication.

International studies have confirmed the central role played by families in defining migration routes and strategies. Adopting a family perspective to view the migration phenomenon means observing the different relationships between the various components along a multi-generational temporal and relational axis. Migration experiences from one generation to another are very different, and they often underline or exacerbate generational differences. A generational approach could therefore be the leitmotiv of innovative debates in the field of contemporary migration studies. Furthermore, introducing generation as a key variable may help to understand migration processes through a broader perspective in this time of multiple crises and transformations. This contribution, which is of a theoretical nature, aims to reflect on state-of-the-art research in the field. Reviewing the most recent literature, it aims to add to the available knowledge by observing how cultural complexity, intergenerational relationships and renegotiation practices within migrant families could be regarded as empirical evidence of ongoing social change., Educazione interculturale, Vol. 20 No. 2 (2022): Migrant families. Intergenerational dynamics and inclusion in socio-educational contexts

The book contains the partial effects of the research realized within the project 'Technologies of Imaging in Communication, Art and Social Sciences' (TICASS). It presents the material gathered and analysed referring to visual messages in urban public spaces in Poland, on the case study of the City of Szczecin. These investigations and analyses, based on Paul Martin Lester model of visual communication analysis, are important because all contemporary societies in Europe or in the rest of the world have at stake solving the problems of communication in cities, in their public spaces saturated with images which may be diversely (accurately, incorrectly, falsely) read by individuals in the city whether by residents, tourists, visitors, or researchers. The urban text has a polyphonic character in its diversity of contents and forms, but also is full of contradictions, and sometimes absurdities, paradoxes, and palimpsest, what requires specific competences for its reading and cognitive-functional use.

The book contains the partial effects of the research realized within the project 'Technologies of Imaging in Communication, Art and Social Sciences' (TICASS). It presents the material gathered and analysed referring to visual messages in urban public spaces in Poland, on the case study of the City of Szczecin. These investigations and analyses, based on Paul Martin Lester model of visual communication analysis, are important because all contemporary societies in Europe or in the rest of the world have at stake solving the problems of communication in cities, in their public spaces saturated with images which may be diversely (accurately, incorrectly, falsely) read by individuals in the city whether by residents, tourists, visitors, or researchers. The urban text has a polyphonic character in its diversity of contents and forms, but also is full of contradictions, and sometimes absurdities, paradoxes, and palimpsest, what requires specific competences for its reading and cognitive-functional use.

The following educational recommendations for studies in media, art, anddesign are the collective work of Italian, Czech, and Polish researchers. The generaloverview of international studies of visual languages and communication is given byFlavia Stara, who presents images as a vehicular language for interdisciplinarydialogue. Relationships between knowledge structures and content and the use ofvisual languages are analyzed in the second part of the book from the perspectiveof social interactions taken from transcultural vantage points. The practical applicationof such a perspective is presented by Kateřina Dytrtov., who showsthe importance of a deep cultural approach to visual signs and art, not just a superficialgrasp and use, for the sake of understanding.The third part of the book is dedicated to specific educational strategies forteaching visual languages, focused on the cultural context, visual literacy skills, interculturalinteractions, critical approaches, creative experiences, and transculturalvalidations of the experience in order to develop subjective and collective visualcompetences – knowledge and abilities – within mutual and social understanding.In the fourth part of the book, Giuseppe Capriotti explains the theoretical toolsused for analysis in detail; especially Paul Martin Lester’s visual communicationanalysis and Harold Dwight Lasswell’s approach to visual signs in his communicationmodel. The fifth part discusses the results delivered by Rosita Deluigi ofthe interdisciplinary round table held at the 4th International TICASS Conference“P.Art-icipA˝tion. Education, Visual Languages and Intercultural Strategies”,25th-26th of November,the Department of Education, Cultural Heritageand Tourism at the University of Macerata and at the Museo Buonaccorsi, Italy.Finally, the lastpart of the book presents the best practices elaborated during the TICASS projectin Italy, the Czech Republic, and Kenya.