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In the history of the city of L’Aquila, squares have always had a pivotal role in the foundation and transformation of its design. In fact, squares in L’Aquila have always been part and parcel of the city’s image, each one with its specific identity and meaning; meeting and gathering places in which the inhabitants recognize themselves and of which they have suffered the absence during these years of reconstruction following the earthquake of 2009, still underway today, that is finally allowing the population to reclaim the spaces of the historic centre.The paper delves into the values of hand and life drawing, which still has great potential as a scientific process made up of technique, perception and critical restitution, in order to read and document the urban spaces of the city’s identity and to recognize their historical and architectural values.DOI: https://doi.org/10.20365/disegnarecon.31.2023.20

In this article I have chosen a contemporary phenomenon, urban sketching, as an empirical starting point. Through active participation as an urban sketcher through digital publishing, dialogue and interaction, I analyze my analytical process and urban sketching practice. The aim is to examine ethnographic drawing as a visual cultural analytical method. My contribution is based the connection between urban ideals and innovative, creative environments in a local context. An overall knowledge goal is to develop visual methods and perspectives in the borderland between cultural analysis, artistic research, and new academic formats. Sketching and drawing can be compared to written ethnographic notes made during fieldwork or observation. The relationship between drawing and taking notes can be regarded as a dialogue, an ongoing conversation in which the importance of adopting a new vision is more important than the competence to draw. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As narrativas visuais, como os quadrinhos, são ferramentas populares que podem contribuir com a educação e comunicação científica. Dentro dessa perspectiva, este trabalho relata o impacto do uso de quadrinhos na disseminação do conhecimento sobre segurança alimentar de peixes em um evento de divulgação científica (Porto/Portugal). Para a ocasião, foi criada uma história, que descrevia o conceito sobre Anisakis spp. e maneiras de prevenir a anisaquíase. O enredo dos quadrinhos envolveu os participantes, de forma clara e direta, representando uma estratégia eficiente de divulgação científica abrangente e simplificadora, para diferentes públicos. Destaca-se aqui a importância da produção de novos conhecimentos, que ampliem o diálogo das áreas da saúde, ciência e tecnologia com a sociedade, além disso, torna-se urgente aumentar investimentos e promover a formação avançada e continuada de divulgadores da ciência.

The paper reconsiders style transfer with generative adversarial networks (GANs) as a powerful means towards a machinic extraction of perception, one that learns how to imitate how a human might spatially abstract, translate and eventually create designs. The aim is to investigate the potential of deep learning a mapping between two domains, one being the perceived reality of an urban scene, and the other, its representation on a sketch. The creative discipline under consideration in this paper is that of architecture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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After ten years, drawing indiscriminately the neighborhoods of Valencia, for no other reason than to observe and represent every corner of the city, we finally decided to use the communicative capacity of drawing as a tool to reclaim El Cabanyal’s negletic state of abandonment, that has been going through for many years, regardless its political burden. After setting this goal and analysing the morphological and social history of this neighborhood, we decided to travel the streets and rooftops of El Cabanyal, talk to its people, and draw, in situ, those different spaces, shapes, colors, atmospheres ... giving rise to dozens of drawings that immortalize the (still alive) remains of this urban ecosystem. Paper-shaped witnesses sketched with latent architectures, persecuted and threatened by oblivion that will accompany us during the course of this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the potential of observational sketching as a social science research tool, informed by our own recent experiments with observational sketching techniques and approaches. We first outline the historical roots of academic sketching and note a recent resurgence of interest in sketching in certain disciplines. We then introduce our own explorations in sketching as method, based on a year-long collaboration between an observational artist and a group of qualitative researchers with interests in creative methods. The paper outlines some of the lessons we learnt from our partnership, focusing on three themes: (i) ‘sketchiness’; (ii) ‘concentrated seeing’ and (iii) sketching as interaction. We conclude that observational sketching generates a refreshingly different form of visual data which has considerable potential to be used as a complement to other methods, including as a participatory method and as a useful tool for thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a lifetime, human brain constitutes cognitive models for various conditions and events in order to be able to adapt to the environment and lead a life based on experiences. Based on multidimensional sensory experiences, people create an internal model of a city and they use this model as a mental sketch in their new urban space experiences. Cognitive mapping methods create qualified data for way-finding and the process of classifying the stimuli of the living area and carrying out spatial designs that promote quality of life. Aesthetic perception of the urban pattern consists of keeping the skylines of a city in memory and being able to create an image in mind. Skylines are three dimensional urban landscapes which has a prime role in urban design studies. Urban skylines are the reference points for the historical perception of the environmental image. Urban skylines can be classified basically in three categories as the historical skyline, complex skyline in which new and higher structures are dominant and mixed skyline which is a combination of these two situations. The postcards and information guides for cities are important references in representing the identity for historical cities. The photographs seen in information guide books and postcards are attractive points for citizens and visitors of the cities. The fact that cities are changing constantly shows that cities like İstanbul, which are famous for their coastal skyline can protect the holistic aesthetic value of their very limited textures but cause a dramatic change and a chaotic visual effects within their urban transformation process. One of the major fundamental research areas of this study is to determine how these changes affect the memory. The aim of the study is to investigate how the image created by the skylines of historical cities can be expressed by drawing. The basic differences among the cognitive mapping techniques and the cognitive perception and the schematic display of a skyline can be discussed through this experimental approach. This study aims to do experimental research among a group of architecture students who are strong at drawing and schematic expressions. The selected group of samples will be asked to draw (1) the schematic skyline images of the city they live in and a city they have visited as far as they remember, (2) examined how they draw a skyline and how much time it takes after they are shown a skyline of a historical city chosen in a certain time, (3) watch a video on the streets of two different cities they have seen or haven't seen before, and asked to draw a skyline of the city based on what they have watched. Finally, these different situations will be analyzed. In the experimental study, After 3 days, drawing the best remembered skyline image will be requested from students. And what the sample group have thought in this selection in terms of aesthetics will be measured with the semantic differential and the adjective pairs. Participants will be asked to draw the catchy image of the skyline shown in order to compare the experimental methods and the subjective aesthetic evaluation methods. Observation-based determinations will be realized by the analysis of these drawings and the adjective pairs. In this way, the relation between the skyline perception and the aesthetic experience in urban life will be discussed.

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