Graphical Sciences, What Future?

Contemporaneity is characterized by continuous and rapid processes of technological, social, environmental and cultural transformation. In particular, in recent years we are witnessing an acceleration that calls into question our daily intellectual, cognitive and communicative practices. In this context, the dimensions of visuality relate to images of a new ontological, semantic, and ultimately anthropological and cultural nature, which involve innovative methods and tools of study and research, and an unprecedented relationship with society. In this way, the relationship between us and the images is redefined, where interpretative and representational models participate in the architecture of observation and in its transformation. This has a profound and concrete impact on our way of understanding the disciplinary experience of representation, forcing us to reflect on the role of graphic sciences, to understand the dynamics in place and reflect on what is expected. In particular, drawing is constituted as a method and graphic-visual tool of excellence to define our gaze on the reality that surrounds us, to interpret and understand it, and therefore to question ourselves on the relationship with tradition and the future of representation. It is a reflection on the characteristics, potential and criticalities that drawing may manifest in the coming years, and on how the discipline can change, also in relation to other fields of science and knowledge. The call aims to collect papers that highlight eminently critical and cultural issues, referable to a theoretical-methodological reasoning to investigate and prefigure the near tomorrow of graphical sciences, in the field of research, teaching and design; the case studies, if any, are to support a reflection on the trends.