What possibilities arise when we understand drawing as a tool for intervention and participation in urban and social contexts? In this experimental workshop, participants explored drawing as an experimental practice of embodied perception, imagination, and collaboration.
Drawing links situations to actions. With the development of new forms of cooperation, drawing is ideally suited to initiate actions of collective participation and intervention in public space. In the tradition of gestural art, drawing conveys direct expression and spontaneity: a narrative on the edge of the non-verbal. But drawing also conveys an experienced situation, an inner image, a combination of different views. It opens up a world of narrative combinations of object and non-object.
The workshop participants created a large-format collaborative drawing, a spatial and visual-tactile narrative about the city. It was publicly exhibited during the international KISDconference »Intervening Drawing« from June 6-8, 2024 and during the KISDparcours 2024 in July to explore the audience’s interaction with the drawing.
»Collective Drawing« is an event of the research project »Open Universities« by the TH Köln and the University of Cologne, funded by the RheinEnergie Foundation in the context of the focus program »Society and Digital Transformation«. The »Open Universities« explore the question of the future of knowledge in the post-disciplinary age. This question invites us to ›unlearn‹ old European practices of understanding the world and to no longer describe things in a binary logic.
Workshop »Collective Drawing«
27 May – 6 June 2023, Köln International School of Design der TH Köln
Organization
Lukas Hamilcaro, Marseille
Photos
Wanda Freudig, Carolin Höfler, Elisa Hoffmann, Matthias Karch, Philip Lehmann, Darío Morazán, Patrick Schwarz
We would like to thank Gerd Mies and Hendrik Arnold for their kind support.
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Lukas Hamilcaro (b. 1991) is an architect-illustrator based in Marseille, working in the fields of temporary architecture, urban design, scenography and illustration. He studied architecture at the École nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris Val de Seine and at the Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro. He has worked for many years with raumlaborberlin and the ETC collective, pioneers of collaborative architecture. He often works in a participatory approach, and conducts many workshops with different types of public, including students, people with disability, children’s and marginalized communities. For him, architecture and visual art is a way to experiment space with a common-tool that aims to share public imagination.
