Canaries from doodles and other visual exercises

Manfredo Massironi was indeed a contemporary Renaissance humanist, driven by endearing curiosity towards the fields of architecture and interior design, art, perceptual sciences, visual communication, psychology of art, and story telling. Both his intellectual and his artistic works are rich of insightful ideas. Sometimes such ideas were offered to the reader in terms of a playful exercise, some other times they were disguised in the form of a short story. I will attempt to trace the imaginary line that connects Manfredo's stories and his proposed exercises to his own scientific and artistic interests. If my hand and mind are steady enough, the result should deliver an imaginary portrait of Manfredo Massironi.