Sketching in Practice Symposium

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  • Designing for Innovation: Patrick Pennefather on Team-based Mapping

    Patrick Pennefather

    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.

    Patrick Pennefather
    Rapid prototyping a game idea by drawing it on a sticky.

     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
    An example of a whiteboard rapid prototype and the manifestation of the idea in the real world.

    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.

  • Redrawing the Future, One Poster at a Time

    A Radical History Poster Project

    Draw the world you want to see.

     That is the inspiration behind the Graphic History Collective’s radical history poster project.

    Each poster tells the story of a group whose struggles in Canada—from Caribbean caregivers in the 1900s to present day Yukon First Nations—have been largely ignored.

    According to the Collective, the goal of creating them is to create accessible and informative representations that celebrate change makers of the past—to fuel change makers of today.  The ultimately goal: to help everyone “dream of a better world.”

    Learn how to create your own radical history poster with the Collective’s Kara Sievewright  and Robin Folvik at Sketching in Practice.  

  • Taking it to the Streets: Vjeko Sager on the power of daily drawing adventures

    Vjeko Sager
    Vjeko SagerNever stop failing. Never stop seeing things in new ways. And never stop creating.

    Those are the words that Emily Carr University lecturer and internationally celebrated artist Vjeko Sager lives by through his practice of Nomadic sketching–which sees him packing up his drawing tools, a camera, and wandering through the city on a daily basis.

    “The most important aspect of sketching anywhere & everywhere is to stimulate the senses and expand the palette of perceptions. New places energize and channel creative energy that transforms the way we think. Most things are discovered by “chance”, which is nothing but an apparently insignificant impulse in the environment.”

    Vjeko Sager

    Sager explains that the drawing he creates are not just expressions of imagination, but of a universality that he hopes can act as an anecdote to some of society’s most troubling divisions.

    “As drawing stands at the core of every art, it can turn ideas into actions. In this sense, universality comes alive via drawing and what else can better declare our presence on this planet, but a simple line which proves that we exist.”

    Learn more about Nomadic sketching and it’s potential to impact the world at Sager’s SkIP session.