Preface of Proceedings of the 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Image and Imagination IMG 2021

The book presents the proceedings of the conference: IMAGE LEARNING 2021. The link between imagination, forms, spaces, and anthropological, ideological, social, psychological, and formative contexts inevitably draws us to reflect on the importance of images in our cultural universe: the evident power of symbolic language in social life lends extreme importance and urgency to the development of diverse and multidisciplinary lines of inquiry into the role of the imaginal, especially in the processes underpinning the construction of subjects and their relationships with places. Attending to images does not solely mean examining them within the vast and complex universe of reception processes that raise iconological, sociological, psychoanalytical, mass media, pedagogical, or anthropological questions: the imaginal is the area of the human experience where acts of reception converge with acts of generation. Aesthetic and visual creativity underpins relational experience, facilitates the production of knowledge and interdisciplinary processes, and both organizes and orients methods of thinking about, designing, and enjoying the world.