EXPERIENCING ARCHITECTURAL GRAPHICS LITERACY: EXPERIMENTANDO A ALFABETIZAÇÃO GRÁFICA DE ARQUITETURA

Since 2011 the revised Unesco UIA Charter for Architectural Education recommended to include digital literacy among the relevant criteria for evaluating and ranking the Schools of Architecture. Not only in the field of Graphics, as one could easily expect, but in all the disciplinary fields forming the curriculum, either belonging to science and technique, or to humanities and art. Digital itself was then holistically considered as a linguistic environment, where the various contributions could converge and and be integrated. What was admirably summarized in the hope to achieve digital fluency as an educational goal. This seemed in accordance with the for long time coveted idea of a semiosphere proposed by Jurij Lotman (LOTMAN, 1984). In 2019 the Dean of the School of Architecture of Politecnico di Milano, and the Coordinator of the Bachlor Program in Architectural Design asked the author to prepare and to coordinate a program for the Academic Year 2020/2021, addressed to 20 classes, that is, to the about 1.000 students enrolled in the Second Year.