Considering visual imaginations and the aesthetic categories of atmospheres as central in architectural design can be decisive to allow an existence rooted in her present and reality. This tools are detached from technological progress, free and purely creative: that’s why they are useful on a large scale in our globalized world.
In a time dominated by technocracy and digital revolution the humankind is constantly living in the apparent worlds of mediality, taking the risk of considering that one more engaging than the real one. At the same time theory and critic of architecture are striving to evolve from phenomenological or deconstructivist positions which are too much related with verbal thinking.
Starting from the philosophical work of Gernot Bohme and the body of research in psychology and philosophy around human visuality I want to raise a renewed interest around visual imagination and atmospheres, both in practices and theoretical works.