Sketching in Practice Symposium

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  • Not Your Grandmother’s Morning Funnies: Dr. Jessica Motherwell on bias-fighting comics

    Jessica Motherwell

    According to Dr. Jessica Motherwell, comics can be about a lot more than Monday-hating cats and boys with sling-shots.

    Motherwell, a Justice Institute of BC (JIBC) lecturer and counsellor, recently led a project where students used a comic-book-making app to identify strategies for combatting sexism and homophobia. Even more impressive: they did it all in under ten minutes.

    Come to her SkIP session, co-led by JIBC Instructional Designer Krista Lambert, on how sketching in the virtual space can be used to create a more inclusive world.

     

  • Dark matter, dinosaurs and drawing: Joshua Korenblat on systems thinking

    A single cell, a bee hive, the universe–understanding these complex systems is no easy task.

    Enter system’s thinking, an approach based on mapping the interrelations between system structures and actors, as well as their long-term activity patterns. This approach, though originally focused on the natural world, is now being used to fuel innovation in social domains, such as economics.

    In his SkIP session, Joshua Korenblat, Assistant Professor at the State University of New York and Graphicacy Art Director will lead a collaborative sketching exercise to identify the connections between three seemingly diverse topics: dark matter, dead dinosaurs, and the rise of mammals. He will then share a sketching-based approach to system’s thinking can be applied in other contexts.

  • Around the Room: Suk Kyoung Choi on drawing physical spaces

    Suk Kyoung Choi

    If you can feel you can draw.

    The spaces we inhabit shape us in countless ways—some of those universal and some unique. Expressing those experience through sketching is one way to capture that diversity so that we can begin to more deeply understand how the physical world impacts us.

    Suk Kyoung Choi is a Korean artist and current PhD candidate at the School of Interactive Arts. Come to her SkIP session to explore and uncover hidden dimensions in the everyday world through the power of sketching.