Professional Practice
Drawing from the Landscape
Date: 1/9/2025 - 1/9/2025
Location(s): International
Description:
In this seminar we will discuss the use of hand drawing and analog image making on-site, and early in the design process, as a way to stir the designer's curiosity and imagination.
The value of non-representative drawings, where one draws what one feels as much as one sees, will be introduced. Using examples of the author's design practice and teaching, we will look at how these kinds of images tie landscape design practice to other uses of "spatial imaginaries" and "creative experiences."
Further, in an era of increasing technological advances and reliance on digitization of landscape and place representation, we will discuss the joy and utility of hand drawing by and with project stakeholders, as a way to form "communities of practice" that inform landscape change.
Learning Objectives:
1. Hand drawing and image making techniques for site understanding.
2. Landscape drawing as a spatial imaginary and a creative experience.
3. Landscape drawing for engagement with stakeholders as a community of practice.