Little research exists regarding the possibilities of using virtual reality (VR) to teach drawing skills. This report aims to compare traditional methods of teaching drawing techniques with methods for teaching digital drawing using VR design software such as Gravity Sketch and MultiBrush. Based on our experiences in a variety of workshops and courses, we observe that the VR drawing classroom can enrich existing educational formats as it offers advantages such as increased student focus, collaboration and balance between group instruction and individual feedback.
{"title":"Inside the virtual art classroom: Using VR design software to support drawing courses in higher education","authors":"Gert Wastyn, Steven Malliet, Bart Geerts","doi":"10.1386/drtp_00116_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00116_1","url":null,"abstract":"Little research exists regarding the possibilities of using virtual reality (VR) to teach drawing skills. This report aims to compare traditional methods of teaching drawing techniques with methods for teaching digital drawing using VR design software such as Gravity Sketch and MultiBrush. Based on our experiences in a variety of workshops and courses, we observe that the VR drawing classroom can enrich existing educational formats as it offers advantages such as increased student focus, collaboration and balance between group instruction and individual feedback.","PeriodicalId":36057,"journal":{"name":"Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139329617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reviewe of: Drawing Thought: How Drawing Helps US Observe, Discover, and Invent, Andrea Kantrowitz (2022) Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 192 pp., ISBN 978-0-26254-432-0, p/bk, $28.95
{"title":"Drawing Thought: How Drawing Helps Us Observe, Discover, and Invent, Andrea Kantrowitz (2022)","authors":"Sara Schneckloth","doi":"10.1386/drtp_00123_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00123_5","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewe of: Drawing Thought: How Drawing Helps US Observe, Discover, and Invent, Andrea Kantrowitz (2022) Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 192 pp., ISBN 978-0-26254-432-0, p/bk, $28.95","PeriodicalId":36057,"journal":{"name":"Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139328505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This project report outlines the research-led exhibition, Drawing Room – part of an ongoing collaborative design research project focusing on drawing – exhibited at Toi Moroki Centre of Contemporary Art Christchurch (CoCA), New Zealand. The research interrogates drawings that move – made by light, shadow and animation – and our encounters with drawings through the manipulations of scale and virtual reality (VR). The research investigates the relationship between scale, moveable drawings and bodily engagement in architectural drawing and the speculative nature of VR in architectural drawing. The research places architectural drawing within an expanded practice – shifting its generation from the architectural office – by way of critiquing the normative ways of representing the discipline of architecture. This project demonstrates that the making of architectural drawings and their encounter engages the entire body; in encountering these, we occupy and inhabit the spaces of these drawings. The project investigates the influence of speculative drawing practices on the conceiving and developing of developing architectural built work through the use of exhibition.
{"title":"Encountering drawing","authors":"S. Mulla, A. Paterson, M. Macken","doi":"10.1386/drtp_00110_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00110_1","url":null,"abstract":"This project report outlines the research-led exhibition, Drawing Room – part of an ongoing collaborative design research project focusing on drawing – exhibited at Toi Moroki Centre of Contemporary Art Christchurch (CoCA), New Zealand. The research interrogates drawings that move – made by light, shadow and animation – and our encounters with drawings through the manipulations of scale and virtual reality (VR). The research investigates the relationship between scale, moveable drawings and bodily engagement in architectural drawing and the speculative nature of VR in architectural drawing. The research places architectural drawing within an expanded practice – shifting its generation from the architectural office – by way of critiquing the normative ways of representing the discipline of architecture. This project demonstrates that the making of architectural drawings and their encounter engages the entire body; in encountering these, we occupy and inhabit the spaces of these drawings. The project investigates the influence of speculative drawing practices on the conceiving and developing of developing architectural built work through the use of exhibition.","PeriodicalId":36057,"journal":{"name":"Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79968316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article questions the temporal and material limitations of architectural representation, as they emerge through the problematic relationship between architectural drawing, considered as a static object of fixed convention and space as an inherently kinetic domain. It reflects on the large-scale drawing Weaving Lines/Looming Narratives (WL/LN, 2013), to propose a way of bringing together the kinetic dimensions of architectural space and architectural drawing. The city is a territorial condition that, since modernity, has come to define a kinetic field of spatial and temporal complexity. The challenges that this complexity entails for architectural drawing are used here to question the fixity of drawing conventions, and expand architecture’s range of concerns to the transitory conditions of space that emerge between the stabilizing effects of order(s) and the spontaneity of events. The question of kinetic space places under new light the discrepancies between the real and the representational by underlining the mobility of both viewer and environment; spectacle and spectator. This article interrogates architectural linearity to propose ways of transversally representing the web of movements that form the contemporary city as well as the making of architectural drawing. Following the deconstructive approaches to the production of meaning of the late twentieth century, and drawing form Catherine Ingraham’s study of architectural linearity, the article frames drawing as a performative practice rather than a systematic language, and a representational field of action rather than order.
{"title":"Inhabitation, difference, performance: Architectural linearity in three movements","authors":"Sophia Banou","doi":"10.1386/drtp_00105_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00105_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article questions the temporal and material limitations of architectural representation, as they emerge through the problematic relationship between architectural drawing, considered as a static object of fixed convention and space as an inherently kinetic domain. It reflects on the large-scale drawing Weaving Lines/Looming Narratives (WL/LN, 2013), to propose a way of bringing together the kinetic dimensions of architectural space and architectural drawing. The city is a territorial condition that, since modernity, has come to define a kinetic field of spatial and temporal complexity. The challenges that this complexity entails for architectural drawing are used here to question the fixity of drawing conventions, and expand architecture’s range of concerns to the transitory conditions of space that emerge between the stabilizing effects of order(s) and the spontaneity of events. The question of kinetic space places under new light the discrepancies between the real and the representational by underlining the mobility of both viewer and environment; spectacle and spectator. This article interrogates architectural linearity to propose ways of transversally representing the web of movements that form the contemporary city as well as the making of architectural drawing. Following the deconstructive approaches to the production of meaning of the late twentieth century, and drawing form Catherine Ingraham’s study of architectural linearity, the article frames drawing as a performative practice rather than a systematic language, and a representational field of action rather than order.","PeriodicalId":36057,"journal":{"name":"Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77356818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this paper, I take the theme ‘Drawing and Movement’ as an opportunity to reflect on relationships between mind and body in learning how to draw as fostered by diverse teaching methods. Towards that end, I initially propose a cognitive perspective based on Barbara book, Mind in Motion, then apply it to two movement-intensive drawing skills – mark or pattern-making and figurative sketching, each with an imperative for practice. In the process, the concept of ‘mind in motion’ helps shed new light on five instructional paradigms I defined in my previous research. To conclude, I review conditions in contemporary culture and visual arts education that make the restoration of drawing instruction as outlined here especially relevant in the digital age. Connecting these sections, I will highlight eight drawing demonstrations to illustrate how ‘mind in motion’ helps explain how drawing not only represents thought in different domains (art, science, philosophy, etc.) but in fact facilitates it.
{"title":"Meditations on teaching drawing and movement as ‘mind in motion’","authors":"Seymour Simmons","doi":"10.1386/drtp_00104_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00104_1","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, I take the theme ‘Drawing and Movement’ as an opportunity to reflect on relationships between mind and body in learning how to draw as fostered by diverse teaching methods. Towards that end, I initially propose a cognitive perspective based on Barbara book, Mind in Motion, then apply it to two movement-intensive drawing skills – mark or pattern-making and figurative sketching, each with an imperative for practice. In the process, the concept of ‘mind in motion’ helps shed new light on five instructional paradigms I defined in my previous research. To conclude, I review conditions in contemporary culture and visual arts education that make the restoration of drawing instruction as outlined here especially relevant in the digital age. Connecting these sections, I will highlight eight drawing demonstrations to illustrate how ‘mind in motion’ helps explain how drawing not only represents thought in different domains (art, science, philosophy, etc.) but in fact facilitates it.","PeriodicalId":36057,"journal":{"name":"Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91338184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article discusses drawing as a tool for thinking and understanding embodied spatial experience in an educational context within architecture and dance. In both disciplines, body, movement and space are important components of the creative process. Besides, they also share drawing as a tool for thinking and understanding. However, the types of drawings and drawing techniques used in both disciplines are very different. Based on a literature review, this article offers insights into the knowledge and shortcomings produced by discipline-specific drawings regarding body, movement and space, as well as how it impacts the creative process. Starting from the identified shortcomings, experimental setups in educational environments are used to investigate to what extent the sharing of drawing techniques between both disciplines enables new ways of thinking and understanding, allowing for different attitudes and awareness of the concept of embodied spatial experience. Overall, the article contributes to the discussion of drawing as a creative thinking tool in both disciplines involved.
{"title":"Drawing body, movement and space in architecture and dance","authors":"Liselotte Vroman","doi":"10.1386/drtp_00103_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00103_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses drawing as a tool for thinking and understanding embodied spatial experience in an educational context within architecture and dance. In both disciplines, body, movement and space are important components of the creative process. Besides, they also share drawing as a tool for thinking and understanding. However, the types of drawings and drawing techniques used in both disciplines are very different. Based on a literature review, this article offers insights into the knowledge and shortcomings produced by discipline-specific drawings regarding body, movement and space, as well as how it impacts the creative process. Starting from the identified shortcomings, experimental setups in educational environments are used to investigate to what extent the sharing of drawing techniques between both disciplines enables new ways of thinking and understanding, allowing for different attitudes and awareness of the concept of embodied spatial experience. Overall, the article contributes to the discussion of drawing as a creative thinking tool in both disciplines involved.","PeriodicalId":36057,"journal":{"name":"Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91298739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper uses a case study of the performance drawing out of routine from 2017 to discuss the recording through drawing as a method for deeper understanding of movements, interactions and perceptions. Referring to the sociological concept of space as ‘relational’, this discussion of the drawing suggests that ‘space’ is experienced in a circular momentum of action and reaction, of perceiving and being perceived. Furthermore, it discusses the mutability of perception as understood through examples of other artists’ performative drawings.
{"title":"Drawing and (re)acting: The creation of Movement Spaces","authors":"Simone Ruess","doi":"10.1386/drtp_00107_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00107_1","url":null,"abstract":"This paper uses a case study of the performance drawing out of routine from 2017 to discuss the recording through drawing as a method for deeper understanding of movements, interactions and perceptions. Referring to the sociological concept of space as ‘relational’, this discussion of the drawing suggests that ‘space’ is experienced in a circular momentum of action and reaction, of perceiving and being perceived. Furthermore, it discusses the mutability of perception as understood through examples of other artists’ performative drawings.","PeriodicalId":36057,"journal":{"name":"Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90281758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
These maps were drawn on a sandy isthmus known as the Neck on lunawuni / Bruny Island in Tasmania, Australia. This low-lying, tenuous geomorphology is one that both connects and protects, this material and psychological presence is amplified in the context of rapid climate change. The nature of the change, as a break from largely predictable patterns of the Holocene epoch, is not just about destruction of the environment and its biodiversity, it is also about the undermining of sedentary modes of existence. My drawings withdraw from mapping as a utility. Instead, they emphasize mapping as a process of documentation in discovery. Mapping in this way is not about representing the form of place through projection. It is about creating a drawing practice in movement, one that sees the value of uncertainty in the process of learning and development. My maps reconceptualize mapping as a performative production in a condition of departure and return. They frame mapping within an experiential and subjective manner, opening up a reflective and symbolic potential for practices of drawing, architecture and design.
{"title":"Sojourn maps: A report of departure and return","authors":"Matt Gunn","doi":"10.1386/drtp_00109_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00109_1","url":null,"abstract":"These maps were drawn on a sandy isthmus known as the Neck on lunawuni / Bruny Island in Tasmania, Australia. This low-lying, tenuous geomorphology is one that both connects and protects, this material and psychological presence is amplified in the context of rapid climate change. The nature of the change, as a break from largely predictable patterns of the Holocene epoch, is not just about destruction of the environment and its biodiversity, it is also about the undermining of sedentary modes of existence. My drawings withdraw from mapping as a utility. Instead, they emphasize mapping as a process of documentation in discovery. Mapping in this way is not about representing the form of place through projection. It is about creating a drawing practice in movement, one that sees the value of uncertainty in the process of learning and development. My maps reconceptualize mapping as a performative production in a condition of departure and return. They frame mapping within an experiential and subjective manner, opening up a reflective and symbolic potential for practices of drawing, architecture and design.","PeriodicalId":36057,"journal":{"name":"Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78692677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This project describes and discusses the performance piece Drawing Breath (2022), which combined ethnographic research into traditional Chinese calligraphy with experimental art practices to produce a drawn visualization of breathing. It first identifies the ways in which breathing is related to the practice and appreciation of Chinese calligraphy, then discusses other aspects of traditional Chinese writing practice relevant to issues of movement and embodiment. Notions of qi (‘breath’ or ‘energy’) and its associated meditative and physical practices are related to calligraphic mark-making, and Chinese aesthetic theories regarding ‘force’ and ‘form’ are presented in the context of Daoist ontological models of immanence, polarity and interdependent opposites. The paper concludes by reflecting on issues of cross-cultural artistic interaction and cultural appropriation, arguing that contemporary western drawing practice, especially that exploring notions of movement, embodiment and performance, benefits greatly from engaging with non-western practices and ontologies.
{"title":"Drawing Breath","authors":"Roland Buckingham-Hsiao","doi":"10.1386/drtp_00108_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00108_1","url":null,"abstract":"This project describes and discusses the performance piece Drawing Breath (2022), which combined ethnographic research into traditional Chinese calligraphy with experimental art practices to produce a drawn visualization of breathing. It first identifies the ways in which breathing is related to the practice and appreciation of Chinese calligraphy, then discusses other aspects of traditional Chinese writing practice relevant to issues of movement and embodiment. Notions of qi (‘breath’ or ‘energy’) and its associated meditative and physical practices are related to calligraphic mark-making, and Chinese aesthetic theories regarding ‘force’ and ‘form’ are presented in the context of Daoist ontological models of immanence, polarity and interdependent opposites. The paper concludes by reflecting on issues of cross-cultural artistic interaction and cultural appropriation, arguing that contemporary western drawing practice, especially that exploring notions of movement, embodiment and performance, benefits greatly from engaging with non-western practices and ontologies.","PeriodicalId":36057,"journal":{"name":"Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81663740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drawing, movement and the need for dynamic abstractions","authors":"R. Chabrier","doi":"10.1386/drtp_00102_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00102_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36057,"journal":{"name":"Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75364505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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