The Active Image Gebunden

The active image refers to the operative nature of images thus capturing the vast array of actions that images perform. This volume features essays that present a new approach to image theory. It explores the many ways images become active in architecture and engineering design processes and how in the age of computer-based modeling images play an indispensable role. The contributors examine different types of images be they pictures sketches renderings maps plans and photographs be they analog or digital planar or three-dimensional ephemeral realistic or imaginary. Their essays i nvestigate how images serve as means of representing as tools for thinking and reasoning as ways of imagining the inexistent as means of communicating and conveying information and how images may also perform functions and have an agency in their own. The essays discuss the role of images from the perspective of philosophy theory and history of architecture history of science media theory cognitive sciences design studies and visual studies offering a multidisciplinary approach to imagery and showing the various methodologies and interpretations in current research. In addition they offer valuable insight to better understand how images operate and function in the arts and sciences in general.