Virtual exhibition for design workshops. Some experiences at DiARC_University of Naples “Federico II”

In the following we describe some conceptual steps and problematic nodes concerning the theme of new and integrable ways of laboratory teaching aided by advanced computer tools developed at the Architectural and Urban Composition Studio or Final Architectural Studio of the five-year single- cycle degree courses in Architecture and the Master’s degree course in Architectural Studio at the DiARC of the University of Naples “Federico II” held – - in the academic years 2019-20 and 2020-21 – and coordinated by Renato Capozzi with the collaboration of Nicola Campanile, Gennaro Di Costanzo, Roberta Esposito, Oreste Lubrano, Claudia Sansò and Francesca Spacagna. The contribution, starting from a questioning of the potentialities but also of the limits of a didactics of the project according to the D.a.D. or blended modality according to a wider perspective of heterotopic sense of Foucauldian matrix in the paragraph “Real VS Virtual”, is articulated in three more technical related paragraphs: “The 3D models”; “Elaboration of the sharing interface”; “Experiences of virtual exhibitions”. The essay ends with some provisional “Conclusions” that reflect on the actual potentialities and development prospects of the combined use of the technologies employed.