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PAPERS: Sketching for thinking, expression, and information Location: 40 George Square, LG.09 Zoom Link Accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/george-square-40-lecture-theatres Session Chair: Amos Scully, Rochester Institute of Tech Session Chair: Mauricio Novoa Munoz, Western Sydney University | |
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Drawn To Think: A Step Toward Decolonising Design Visualcy UAL - Central Saint Martins, United Kingdom Design students often hesitate to use drawing as a thinking tool, wary of expectations for figurative outcomes and the evaluative traditions that shape the status quo in product design. This study draws on object-oriented ontology (OOO) and vibrant materialism to explore how a drawing tool—specifically the pencil— might act as an agent in rethinking the pedagogy of semiogenic design visualcy. The study proposes micro-camera activities that capture the pencil’s perspective to produce a radically altered visual and auditory encounter with drawing. Tracing the pencil’s entanglements reveals drawing not simply as representation but relation. The line becomes both a mark and an event. In this reframing, authorship and perception blur in the pencil’s quiet acts of resistance. Through small experimental interventions, the pencil invites a reimagining of relationships between tools, space and authorship. This shifts drawing from depiction toward encounter, opening possibility for new pedagogical approaches to visual thinking in design. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.967
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