Dealing with the Image. Ivory Towers and Virtual Bridges

(Incipit) The Visual Language of Technique between Science and Art: Heritage and Expectations in Research and Teaching is the title of the cycle of seminars on which this book is based, that aimed at stimulating a discussion among Engineers, Designers and Architects, traditionally involved in the use of the image as a specialized language supporting their work, research activities, and educational tasks. In order to accomplish this goal, it was also necessary to expand and enrich the matter with the contributions of speakers coming from other disciplines, such as Semiotics, Philosophy, Mathematics. As we know, it is easy to see how intensively everybody uses images in her/his daily life, either "natural images", coming from the visual perception, or "artificial images", coming from visual representations and devices, these latter widely available especially nowadays. In other words, no one seems to be "immune" to the effect of the image. (...).