The first 30 people to register for SKiP will be entered into a draw to win one of five tickets to a free additional 2.5 hour workshop with Douglas Cooper, Andrew Mellon Professor, School of Architecture!!
Through a generous grant award by Faculty of Communication Art and Technology at SFU, Douglas Cooper, in addition to presenting at SKiP, will be doing a full 2.5 hour workshop held in the hanger at CDM (same local and room as SKiP) between 1PM – 3:30PM on Thursday Oct 04 2018. This is a longer, more in depth version of the workshop he will be presenting at SKiP with only 25 participants!! For a full description of the workshop see below. What to know more about Doug’s work? Read his paper, Imaginations Hand <Imagination’s Hand PDF>.
Workshop Description
This will be a 2.5 hour workshop held in the hanger at CDM (same local and room as SKiP) between 1PM – 3:30PM on Thursday Oct 04 2018.
There is a large body of research within Embodied Cognition that finds a correlation between spatial thinking and hand gestures—e.g. the kind of gestures we make when giving someone directions. With this as background, this workshop will explore the spatially expressive drawing exercises of author/teacher Kimon Nicolaides: The Natural Way to Draw (1941). His pedagogy was directed squarely at the action of the hand itself in making a drawing and suggests an underlying reason why drawing by hand may still matter even in the digital age.
In the workshop we will draw from projected images to explore Nicolaides’ pedagogy—principally his contour, modeled and gestural exercises. Materials will be soft conté crayon on newsprint (available at the workshop). No substantial prior drawing experience is necessary.
