Women and Representation: the teaching of Drawing in the Italian Faculties of Architecture and Engineering

This paper aims to analyze the contribution given by women to the teaching of the disciplines of Representation in the Italian Faculty of Architecture and Engineering, in a time span from the establishment of such structures to today. A reading, therefore, that going backward over time wants to highlight the distinctive and critical elements of this field of university teaching. In particular, starting from the analysis of current data collected by ministerial archives and by retrieving, back in time, further information, such as the sources of the Italian Association of Drawing Professors (Italian Drawing Union-UID), we illustrate the teaching by women in the specific scientific-disciplinary field ICAR 17/Disegno. An area of interest in which many different cultures coexist: from Design’s drawing to Survey’s drawing; from Descriptive Geometry to Infographic modeling; from Sketches to Digital drawing. Through appropriate graphs, that re-elaborate the acquired data, the paper proposes a diachronic reading that can highlight the contribution, the positon and the incidence of the female figure in the field of university teaching of the Drawing.