Using Controlled Vocabularies for a Creative Interpretation of Architectural Digital Resources

Architectural works and artistic productions are often characterized by a process of signification based on the personal interpretations of those who enjoy and use them. Such freedom of interpretation is understood in the present paper as a creative process that, in reworking facts and concepts, leads to the development of alternative solutions that are innovative and therefore creative. If applied by way of semiotic taxonomies to the management of digital resources, this process can enhance the contents by transforming them into multipliers of experience, able to provide new and unexpected suggestions capable of activating creative mental processes. The research and experimentation carried out by the faculty of architecture of the Università Iuav di Venezia, described in the present paper, help to explain and elucidate this theory, which presents a new challenge for faceted taxonomies and controlled vocabularies.