New Frontiers in Drawing

Ornella Zerlenga; Alessandra Cirafici

doi:10.6093/978-88-85556-24-9

New Frontiers in Drawing

Authors

Ornella Zerlenga

University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4093-708X

Alessandra Cirafici

University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2231-548X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-85556-24-9

Keywords:

Visual Culture, AI, Imagination, Participatory Culture, Hybridisation

Synopsis

Editor: DADI_ PRESS

Series: Reports of DADI institutional research activities - Department of Architecture and Industrial Design. University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli

Pages: 356

Language: Italian and English

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-29761

Abstract: The Research Report, published here in open access for the publications of DADI_Press, is dedicated to the cultural activities promoted within the Scientific-Disciplinary Seminars of the PhD in ‘Architecture, Industrial Design and Cultural Heritage’. Since the a.y. 2020/21, a new format and cycle of monthly training seminars has started, organized by the various Scientific Disciplinary Sectors belonging to the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design of the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, with the task of identifying a specific study topic on which to invite the university’s professors to contribute their own experiences. The beginning of this new scientific-educational adventure was entrusted to the Scientific Disciplinary Sector ICAR/17 Drawing which, around the theme New Frontiers in Drawing (proposed and curated by Ornella Zerlenga and Alessandra Cirafici for the 2021/22 academic year), stimulated PhD students for six weekly meetings, from 2 March to 7 April 2022. To introduce and support the theme of the ‘new frontiers’ in the disciplinary field of Drawing, the opening and closing events of the seminars were symbolically conveyed by the allusion to the concept of ‘frontier’, referring to two authoritative and significant quotations: the first comes from the novel Paula (1995) by the Chilean writer Isabel Allende, “There is a moment in which the journey begun cannot be interrupted, we run towards a border, we pass through a mysterious door and we wake up on the other side, in another life”; the second, from Memoirs of Hadrian (1951) by the French-Belgian writer Marguerite Yourcenar, “Let’s try to enter death with open eyes...”. Both quotations do not go unnoticed. On the contrary, they disturb the soul leading to a reflection on a crucial aspect of human (and non-human) ‘feeling’: the limit as an unknown to be overcome. However, the intention of the curators was not to interpret the idea of ‘frontier’ as a ‘boundary line’ perceived as an insurmountable demarcation but rather as a line that can be moved forward towards territories that have not yet been ‘colonized’ altogether. After all, like the experience of death, a frontier that frightens you when you are alive and which, who knows, perhaps overcoming it will lead to a new way of being and experiencing. Understood in this way, the ‘new frontiers’ represent opportunities that present themselves or in the future in disciplinary thought processes, both theoretical and applied. In this sense, the guests who attended were invited to reflect on the concept of ‘frontier’ by placing it within their own research lines, well-known in the national and transdisciplinary disciplinary landscape

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Author Biographies

Ornella Zerlenga, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli

Ornella Zerlenga is Full Professor in Drawing ICAR/17 and Dean of the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design at the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli. She is Editor-in-Chief of the series Themes and Frontiers of Knowledge and Design for the editorial types of La scuola di Pitagora, and member of the Technical-Scientific Committee of the national scientific association Unione Italiana per il Disegno.

Alessandra Cirafici, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli

Alessandra Cirafici is an architect and Professor of Drawing at the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design of the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli. Since 2022 she has been Coordinator of the National PhD program in Design for Made in Italy. From 2016 to 2021 she was President of the Bachelor's Degree in Fashion Design at the same University. From 2008 to 2012 she was Delegate of the Rector for University Communication and since 2009 she has been Director of the CCS Centre for University Communication. She has been a member and/or manager of national and international research projects, including: PRIN ( since 2002) PON for Innovative Doctorates (2021). She is scientific head of the research line "Design Heritage. Connective Patrimony" at the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design of the University "Luigi Vanvitelli". She is the scientific head and promoter of numerous agreements with institutions and organisations in the area, with particular focus on museum institutions. Her international European and ex-European contacts are numerous. She is a member of numerous scientific committees of scientific journals, publishing series, national and international conferences and exhibitions. His field of research is the geometric-configurative representation of space, which he investigates with a focus on issues related to perceptual and communicative processes both in architecture and in the documentation of the existing and, more generally, in visual communication design. Themes related to inclusive and sustainable fruition strategies of the cultural heritage are more recently the dominant themes of his research itineraries. The results of his research have been presented at national and international conferences, as well as in monographs, curatorships, and essays and articles in specialised journals.