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The use of UAVs is increasingly widespread in activities related to the documentation of Cultural Heritage. In recent years we have seen the fast development of methodologies, calculation platforms, and tools aimed at integrating heterogeneous data, especially from survey campaigns that use drones to reach privileged observation points and ensure full coverage of the investigated object. The definition of increasingly specific and reliable photogrammetric acquisition procedures, also thanks to the widespread use of small drones (micro and mini UAVs), has produced significant experiments and interesting results in the archaeological, architectural, and territorial fields. Universities, research centres, and companies are increasingly involved in activities to optimize the related information acquisition and management processes. The common objective of these researches is to arrive at an effective configuration of integrated, verified, and discretized data, from which to structure valid multiscale and multilevel representation systems. Thus, the different categories of drones, UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems), USV (Unmanned Surface Vehicles), and UUV (Unmanned Underwater Vehicles), today applied for the documentation of heritage, find their specific field of experimentation also in the Design area, integrating systems and measurement tools to contribute to the definition of new and unique databases and systems of representation of the Cultural Heritage.With the editing of this issue, the aim was to promote an interdisciplinary and international discussion on recent experiences on the topic of the use of drones in the field of Surveying and Drawing, providing a moment of reflection between different research realities in the field of architectural and territorial documentation. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20365/disegnarecon.29.2022.ed

In recent years, DAda Laboratory of University of Pavia has conducted numerous research activities in Holy Land aimed at defining operational strategies for the testing of documenting systems useful for the development of tools for the management and enhancement of historical heritage. The translation of the urban image into complex drawings is accomplished to replicate the characteristics of the real space, in order to entrust the virtual quality useful for configuring management tools and manipulating information. The synthesis of the data acquired from digital survey procedures, from the integration and post-production of a wide variety of instrumental out-puts, is expressed in models that reproduce morphological complexity and dimensional aspects in the desire to replicate the urban space of Middle Eastern cities, enhanced in their information content on the levels of decomposition and analysis of which the urban context is composed, to encourage the fruition of research results through the drawing-model. In particular, the paper will present the model of a portion of San Giovanni of Acre, relating to the area of Al-Jazzar Mosque, for the analysis of the historical stratification of religious and urban environments; a portion of Jerusalem adjacent to the monumental walls, for which it was built an interactive platform for the fruition in AR of the survey database; and a portion of the historical center of Bethlehem, for which an analysis of the characteristics of the ahwash quarters and buildings is addressed, useful for a semantic decomposition of the urban structure functional to the creation of an intelligent model for the monitoring of structural risk.DOI: https://doi.org/10.20365/disegnarecon.21.2018.5

Through the digital survey and the use of specialized software, the elements and the relations of contemporary are made accessible to an increasingly knowledgeable and demanding public. Digital databases, wherein the acquired information is collected, increasingly require the development of narrative systems for the use of information and the preservation of memory. Some experimental research explain how the “migration” of the reality in virtual environment strongly depends on the structure of a design database that tries to reproduce the real space and the structure of the relations during the visit of the place. In the digital space, the user can interface with the structural elements of the database to develop critical analysis models.

The research work carried out by the Department of Architecture of Florence and the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture of Pavia for the administration of Montepulciano (SI) was aimed to study new methods of analysis and promotion of the city. The representation of the street fronts of the historic center, realized in a decade of analysis in which it is carried out the study for the planning, has formed a corpus of documents useful for the realization of a three-dimensional model of the city itself. The model, which allows a dynamic interaction with the urban structure, has been designed to develop tools for valuation of the activities and the historical and cultural heritage. It is possible through the determination of a structure of a visual interface and interactive multimedia which would transform the model in a real emotional space.

The Structure from motion procedures have, in recent years, refined to the point of an interesting data acquisition system, also in response to needs for reliable documentation of the different architectural contexts. Experiments concerning the development of its integrated survey of alternative methodologies have led to interesting results concerning methodological protocols to check the reliability of these processes of architectural significance through photography, and lay the foundations for further developments relating to connections that certain models can to generate knowledge, documentation and enhancement of historic architecture.

The survey work on the Karelian landscape and traditional architecture, embedded within the European research project entitled "Wooden Architecture. Karelian Timber Traditional Architecture and Landscape", is intended to enable understanding of how Karelian culture and history have led, over time, unique urban landscapes. The context of transformation, in which they were involved in both the behavioral habits of local populations both traditional architectural ones, which are mixed with models and with the administrative Soviet structures, were analyzed in this scientific field in order to not compromise the conservation and enhancement of the historic, architectural and landscape of this country.

This article describes a genre-based, field-specific EAP course offered in a Latin American university to Master’s candidates of veterinary science who are in the process of writing literature reviews for their dissertations. As their dissertations are expected to be novel contributions, the writers need to have access to scientific information in English, although the final product will be produced in their native Romance language, Spanish. To meet this need, we capitalized on the advantages of the context, particularly the common L1 background and the field homogeneity of the course group, thus allowing for specific instruction.

Resumo Serviços educacionais para a infância apresentam certas características específicas que têm consequências importantes para a escolha da abordagem teórica e dos procedimentos para avaliação da sua qualidade. Serão expostas nesta contribuição algumas dessas características e analisadas suas consequências. Apresenta-se aqui o sistema de avaliação da qualidade dos serviços educacionais para a infância desenvolvido e testado em várias cidades italianas, discutindo a abordagem teórica e descrevendo os procedimentos. O sistema inclui a participação das várias partes interessadas na avaliação e se baseia na documentação escrita da experiência de crianças e pais no serviço, produzida, analisada e discutida pelos operadores nas reuniões de colegiado. A avaliação está incluída na atual atividade profissional dos operadores e objetiva implementar suas habilidades de reflexão e introduzir intervenções de inovação nos serviços.