Sketching in Practice Symposium

Author: Jason

  • Early SKiP announcement – Joshua Korenblat @JoshuaKorenblat

    Early SKiP announcement – Joshua Korenblat @JoshuaKorenblat

    Although SiP is strong in its scholarly leanings, we realize the practice of sketching is the lifeblood of designers and critical for idea creation, iteration and other process oriented work. The speaker in our next announcement covers these bases and more.

    Joshua Korenblat hails from New Paltz NY (our first international speaker!) where he teaches graphic design and interaction. Luckily for us his travel is bringing him out this way and he’s able to join us to share a highly interactive and creative workshop. His proposal states…

    This workshop will draw upon the Art Director’s method for generating rapid ideas and storyboarding, and it will also cover how to sketch records of observations that remain more quantitative in nature: data visualization.

    Web_25-6xNodding to the “visual thinking basics” of Dave Grey, and weaving in  his experience with National Geographic, Joshua shares a practice steeped in traditional design and education. A talented artist is his own right, just check out his art page and some of the “iphone paintings in springtime” he’s been working on.

    Please check out our Call for proposals if you are interested in adding your voice and talent to our growing community.

    More to come!

  • Early SKiP announcement – Dr. Jessica Motherwell McFarlane, Ph.D.

    Early SKiP announcement – Dr. Jessica Motherwell McFarlane, Ph.D.

    Kicking off the final countdown (4 more days!) to contribute to our call for proposals, we are announcing some of the accepted proposals that made our initial call deadline. Drawing on a large pool of local and generous contributors that have agreed to share their innovative drawing practices, as well as reaching out to an international community joining us, its hard to hold back on on the amazing talent we are bringing together on June 24th.  There is still space and time to submit, and we are focusing on being as accessible and inter-disciplinary as possible so check it out!

    Dr. Jessica Motherwell McFarlane, Ph.D.I’m pleased to share the announcement of our first collaborator, Dr. Jessica Motherwell McFarlane, Ph.D.  We met during the Visual practitioners meetup last year and we connected over the need for simple and effective sketching tools for her students to express themselves. On her amazing course blogs (The Diversity Companion) (The Gender Companion) she shares stories of her teaching and provides space online for her students to engage.  For her SKiP proposal she states…

    “As a diversity and social justice instructor, I frequently ask students to write journal entries to reflect on difficult concepts in my course material. When I noticed how popular comics were becoming, I asked myself, “how can I introduce comics-sketches and “selfies” into students’ reflective process?” I could not have guessed how simple, fun and academically successful this innovation would be.”

    Promising to pick up on our keynote speakers comic  focus, it will great to see practices in ‘sequential art’ playing out in the classroom.

    More updates coming soon!

  • Join us to disorient drawing on June 24th

    We are approaching the final week for the SiP call for proposals, and are inviting you to join us, but how do you know that SiP is for you? Bringing together practitioners from a broad range of disciplines, means the common ground we share will be the practice of sketching itself, so yes drawing any form is central.  Education, Art and Design can come together in many ways, but what happens when the people do?

    “Disorienting drawing”, was a term that caught my attention last week and as proposals come in, I feel it has some resonance for us. (enough to inspire the “disoriented” design below anyway) Many conferences aim to bring together well defined communities, but a challenge we are taking on is looking for cross sections between seemingly disparate groups.  (venn diagram forthcoming).

    Sketching in Practice - Call for proposals open for one more week!
    Sketching in Practice – Call for proposals open for one more week!

    Each of the sessions proposed so far promises to showcase a unique approach to drawing. How sketching can be used to achieve deeper understanding for oneself, rapid doodling to generate creative solutions to difficult problems, or collaborative art as process to engage students and push learning forward are just a few.

    Starting today we will begin posting some of the speakers that have joined us so far, to show this range and some of the activities you will experience at Sketching in Practice. Lets start the discussion now, lets begin to disorient drawing. ~ jason