Giochi a tesi. Prototipi di scatole da gioco dal corso “Visual and Narrative towards the Thesis Project”

How does the alchemy of the dissertation work? In order to explore the question underlying Umberto Eco's well-known volume Come si fa una tesi di laurea (How to make a dregree thesis – Eco [1977] 2017) and to have the undergraduates themselves grapple with the problems of method underlying the choice of thesis topic and supervisor, the Research Lab of Architectural Design and Visual and Narrative drawing towards the Thesis Project held at the Iuav in Venice as part of the Master Degree Course of Architecture, proposed to the students to make a game/toy inside a box, starting from the construction of the hypothesis for the thesis in architecture and then from the collection of the first documentary and bibliographical data; one of the critical points for the lecturer was not to overlap with the actual supervision provided by the thesis supervisor.