The Dirty Drawings Wednesday Talks have been organized by Bilge Bal and hosted by Istanbul Kent University since Spring 2022. The no.2 series of four inter/national lectures and two workshops will occur between December 2022 and March 2023.
The Dirty Drawings Wednesday Talks no.2 will focus on an earthly imagination: modern essays through the act of drawing to read the simultaneity of the (un)built and natural ones as companions, to sense the design investigations on/ more than the human Anthropocene, the ecology of a changing Earth, and to cast cross-disciplinary research tools and collaborations beyond divisions.
#03 Kirsty Badenoch (Design Tutor at The Bartlett UCL / Associate Director and Head of Research at Periscope)
“Un-choreographing the Drawing”
February 15, 2023, 19.00 (GMT+3, Istanbul)
via Zoom
Meeting ID: 879 2445 8992
Passcode: 196498
Architectural drawing has traditionally had great difficulty in depicting the landscape. Architectonic techniques are better suited to static forms and individual authorship than to the fluid, complex and collaborative interactions that comprise a landscape.To truly engage with environmental and ecological processes, and to move away from human-centric design thinking, we need to consider more intrinsically landscape-led approaches to drawing. Approaches that embrace performance and change, that emerge from physical interactions with sites, and that relinquish control.
'Un-choreographing the Drawing' invites you on a walk across unknown drawing terrains, through a series of personal drawing expeditions that embrace detours, take scenic routes, get lost and engage with intuition. Drawings that journey across the Japanese mountains, remote Scottish Highlands and Canadian old-growth Forests. Drawings that ask what it could look like to truly design in democratic dialogue with the landscape, and to invite environments to draw their own futures.
About Kirsty Badenoch
Design Tutor at The Bartlett UCL / Associate Director and Head of Research at Periscope
Kirsty Badenoch works with landscape narratives through drawing, teaching and research-led practice. Her research explores the engagement with environmental and ecological processes through experimental drawing; including slow material action, performance and multi-species collaboration. Her work has been exhibited and published internationally.
Kirsty teaches BA Architecture & Interdisciplinary Studies and MA Landscape Architecture at The Bartlett, UCL, and is visiting drawing tutor for Goldsmiths University. In 2020 Kirsty curated ‘Cartographies of the Imagination’ a month-long festival of drawing in North London. Kirsty has previously worked in landscape architecture for leading design firms including BIG and SLA. She currently leads research at Periscope, a spatial design agency focussed on regenerative design and public architecture.
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