Il laboratorio della rappresentazione nel XXI secolo: dallo studio della geometria alla stampa 3D. Ottica e dispositivi metodologici innovativi e coordinati per una didattica sperimentale

The education system of the XXI century is undergoing dramatic transformations which request the development of paradigm shifts and of new methodological approaches, referring in particular to the growing attention on the analysis of the learning methods, to the personalized educational offer, to the diffusion of active learning solutions through the integrated use of the new technologies. The methodological innovation is combined with the innovative practices in such a way as to provide the systematic development of the new learning skills with particular attention to the structure of the morphological evolution of the potential ideas, to the experimentation and implementation of approach methodologies aiming at the fundamental theoretical knowledge supported by the critical and fully aware elaboration through the technological instruments. In the present context where education represents the “instrument” to manage the ongoing changing processes, the methodological and technological research which favors the process of knowledge organization, of circulation of ideas, of exchanging experiences, of content production and learning support, becomes strategic and essential. The purpose of the research, undertaken in the environment of a multidisciplinary lab during the early years in the Architecture degree course, is to explore since the beginning of the cognitive approach the potentialities offered by drawing, starting from the free hand drawing to tackle, in a democratically managed context, those offered by the new information technologies especially in relation to the visual and tactile communication, considering also the continuous refinements in the interrelated processes between modeling and mathematical models. The proposed task, synthesis between learning methodology and applied research, is the expression of the continuous evolution and transformation of the teaching approach strategies, of the methodologies and technologies in order to guarantee a rigorous answer to the education requirements, through the detection of more and more appropriate and suitable solutions for the different needs and learning styles.