The use of visual technologies to document and represent the impact of future interventions.

Abstract

Visual technologies, and drawing in particular, are often aimed at documenting the impact of future interventions. As language, they are by nature communication media and therefore capable to describe and demonstrate what is happening. Drawing has always been the language universally recognized: this feature should let us reflect on its potential value. It is not only a tool to clarify but also it could be considered as an instrument to support and improve future interventions, being them architectonic or environmental. As painters – Cimabue, Giotto, Mantegna, Leonardo and Raffaello – have created their canvass, or as famous architects – Palladio, Bramante and Le Corbusier – have built their projects, heightening the artistic and cultural level of the historical periods in which they were living, similarly drawing, which represents raw material for painters, architects or whoever would like to realize an idea, should necessarily correspond to “a good drawing”, in order to improve one of the most important concern for human beings: the environment in which they live.