Can you use your cheek to draw? Your collar bone? Your clavicle?
According to Lorraine White-Wilkinson, the act of dance and body presence can help stimulate the creative capacity of the mind. And in doing so, expand the very meaning of what it means to sketch—with stunning results.
White-Wilkinson is a Sessional Instructor with SFU’s Faculty of Education with over 30 years experience teaching dance to all ages.
Explore drawing in the third dimension at her SkIP session.
Just last month an Israeli judge based a ruling on the meaning inferred by a flamenco dancer emoji.
With the rise of digital communication—such as texting and Facebook messaging—visual representations of spoken language are broadening beyond letters and punctuation.
But how far can it go? What does moving beyond the colonial ‘Roman’ alphabet open up?
Gabe Wong is a graphic designer and Emily Carr lecturer. Come to his SkIP session to explore how reimagining writing systems can be used to help reclaim and express often marginalized cultures and identities.
Google, Facebook, Apple—today’s most innovative and successful companies are renown for the unconventional workplace approaches they employ to tap into the creativity of their teams.
Strategic maps are one such powerful, drawing-based, tools. Through the creation of these maps, members are not only encouraged to approach problems in new ways, but do so within very tight timelines.
Patrick Pennefather, a founding faculty member at the Centre for Digital Media, has facilitated strategic map-based processes with clients from a wide-range of industries. Come to his SkIP session to learn more about his practice and how to apply it to your setting.