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It has become a well-established fact that the transformation of the communication system in contemporary society has represented a significant moment of reflection on the potential this system offers in the analysis, knowledge and work of enhancing cultural and territorial heritage. Language is above all visual, we speak by images, data is accumulated which is each time implementable and modifiable ad infinitum, continuously and suddenly updated. Data which is building a large archive of the global world, where the past, present and future seem to have no solution of continuity. The representation, of the object, replaces it. It allows the observer of the image to be in the presence of the object, but without the object. It is the visual surrogate of the experience which is made clear through the Methods of Representation. We are called to make a mindful but also unbiased use of each method, making them topical, in order to produce images more suited to contemporary visions.