Foreward

Digital & Documentation 2020 focuses in its subtitle the verbs ‘reading’ and ‘communicating’ referred to Cultural Heritage. The choice of the two verbal lemmas, which seems natural, in fact, in relation to the objectives identified for the Study day, intends to highlight the centrality of Drawing interpreted in its broadest, modern, scientific and current meaning, within the complex process of Cultural Heritage valuing. A Drawing considered in the noblest and broadest meaning of the term, interpreted as a fundamental and main aid to the comprehension and communication of nature and artifacts belonging to real or imaginary space, which are expressed in the forms of tangible and intangible assets. A Drawing that is a privilege of humanity, through which humanity itself can express its Cultural Heritage and benefit from it. A Drawing that is embodied in a multiplicity of theories, tools and forms of expression, which are synergistically, seamlessly, integrated between analog and digital operations. Finally, a Drawing that stratifies over time, leaves its own traces and, as Franco Purini reminds us, is memory1: synchronic and diachronic documentation of the human existence and experience it makes manifest.