Drawing and memory

Graphics are physical or mental images that individuals produce through their perceptual, cognitive, and executive functions. Pertaining to this is the study of implicit behaviors, that is, behaviors consisting of an individual’s interior processes, which are useful for understanding the way they “interpret” the environment as independent variables. The concurrent means of formulating this type of “interpretation”, which is tied to the area of perception, are found in both the behavior and literal and graphical verbal or written narration. This contribution illustrates an interest in aspects tied, in particular, to the narrative component in its graphical acceptance, contextualizing the area to the specifics of drawing mediated by memory. It focuses on an initial evaluation of the results deriving from two decades of graphical tests on the theme of drawing and memory, made on the first day of class by students in the first and second years in the School of Architecture and Engineering. It should be noted that rather than presenting the definitive results of the analysis, a series of initial considerations are detailed in relation to the level of experience acquired by the students after an academic year.