Sketching in Practice Symposium

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  • Get the most out of Sketching in Practice and Pack your iPad!

    Man with iPad for head

    Pencils are great. Seriously, we have nothing against them. In fact, some of our best friends are pencils.

    However,  if you want to get the most out of the Sketching in Practice Symposium, we strongly recommend you bring an iPad.

    Though its not required, it will allow you to try out some of the amazing tools our presenters will be sharing in real-time,  including:

    And remember if you don’t have one don’t worry. Like showers, iPads are best enjoyed when shared with a friend.

    Further note: please download the following apps to prepare for these sessions (* indicates that it is required).

    For Amy Burvall’s session:

    • ImgPlay*
    • Splice*
    • Megaphoto*
    • MotionPortrait*
    • Thinglink
    • Squigglish
    • Enlight
    • Explain Everything
    • TypeDrawing
    • ShadowPuppet

    For Alon Chitayat’s session:

    • Jamboard*

    For Jessica Motherwell and Krista Lambert’s session:

    • ComicBook*
  • Dead boys, drawings, and new discoveries: Katarina Thorsen, SkIP presenter

    Dead boys, drawings, and new discoveries: Katarina Thorsen, SkIP presenter

     

    Katerina Thorsen Babes in the Woods

    One (possibly sunny) day in the 1940s, someone took two little boys deep into Stanley Park and murdered them with a hatchet.

    The Babes in the Woods case continues to be, according to Eve Lazarus, the city’s most bafflying unsolved mystery.

    In her online serialized graphic novel, Artist and criminal profiling student, Katarina Thorsen, uses the power of drawing to reframe research, interviews and published accounts to weave to together a new resolution to this most troubling excerpt of Vancouver’s history.

    Hear her describe first-hand why and how drawing was essential to her practice in both interpreting and representing case-related data at her SkIP session.

    Check more of Thorsen’s work in her online gallery (also known as a website) https://katthorsen.com/.

  • Unpacking Sketching in Practice

    Unpacking Sketching in Practice

    We are still “unpackening“, but would like to thank all of our amazing participants for a day well sketched. I have gone through most of the social media media posts to assemble the storify below.  I was thankful to have so much great coverage of the event, and these do not even include the professional film/photography crew we had on site so the best is still yet to come! As well, we are preparing a short survey and will be collecting images that represent the shape of SIP, from your perspective. Stay tuned, we have much more to share as continue this conversation. (more…)