Drawing Research Network Annual Conference 2010

Observation:Mapping:Dialogue

14^th September 2010 University of Brighton, Grand Parade Campus

10.30 Welcome by Steve Garner – Sallis Benney Theatre

10.35 Keynote address: Professor Deanna Petherbridge

12.00 SESSION ONE Parallel workshops:

• Kate Walters: Drawing as a way to open the door to expanded consciousness
  David Griffin: Utility of notations
• Doris Rohr: Kinaesthetic awareness and mapping space
• Angela Brew: assisted by Patrick Tresset (AIKON project)   Drawing and Cognition
  Andrea Kantrowitz: Gesture studies
• Jim Butler: The subjective process of drawing
  Tom Jones: Writing Drawings
• Lynne Langton: Drawing in Context ALL DAY DRAWING ACTIVITY IN FOYER

1.00   LUNCH

2.00 – 3.00   SESSION TWO Parallel workshops:

• Amanda Roberts: Extended drawing as a tool of enquiry
  Juliet MacDonald: Paradoxical aspects of drawing as enquiry
• Bettina Reiber: Being-in-the-World and drawing
  Karen Wallis & Jac Saorsa: Drawing the ‘Other’
• Jill Gibbon: Radical Reportage
  Jenny Soep: Drawing the Experience
• Luce Choules: Off the map
  Sarah Casey: Invisible lines and parallel practice

3.45   Poster Prize – Plenary session and round up

4.30   Drinks Reception

The Conference team would like to acknowledge the support of the University of Brighton Faculty of Arts and Centre for Learning & Teaching, LearnHigher Centre of Excellence, the Open University, Derwent  and Intellect books.

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The Brighton conference team have agreed from the beginning, in consultation with Steve Garner, that this year’s event should enable as many people as possible to share their research, and discuss ideas and work in progress with colleagues.

So as well as poster displays and the opening and closing discussions, the programme will include a choice of workshop sessions.  Each of these will include two or three short (15 minute) contributions, chosen to act as a trigger for discussion and encourage interdisciplinary exchange between art and design practitioners and researchers from other subject areas.  We anticipate running up to six parallel sessions in the morning and six in the afternoon, enabling around 30 people to present their work, in addition to those presenting posters.

Conference Themes

Each workshop will be linked to one of the conference themes:

• Observation - what is particular about discovery through observational drawing?
• Mapping – how does drawing support the generation of conceptual relationships and new understanding – for instance, through diagrams, mind mapping and other forms of visualisation?
• Dialogue - what is the role of drawing in enabling and documenting communication and dialogue?

The morning sessions will focus on method, with demonstrations and examples of drawing as a tool for inquiry; we hope contributions here will include some practical activities.   For the afternoon we move into more discursive mode to address issues around the role of drawing in the generation of new knowledge and understanding.

We invite your proposals for any of these workshops. Please complete the online WORKSHOP FORM at

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHlpc3dPY0djN0FRWjNseTFET3ladWc6MA
(if this link doesn’t open directly, please copy and paste it into your browser address bar).

You’ll be asked for a brief description of what you would like to offer, to help the conference organisers select the most interesting combinations of speakers for each workshop. These outlines will also be available to conference delegates in advance to help them choose which sessions they want to attend.

If you wish to display a poster on the same topic as your workshop, you don’t need to complete a separate proposal but can indicate this on your workshop form.  However, anyone wishing to offer a freestanding research poster can still do so by going to the POSTER PROPOSAL FORM at:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dHhqTV9DYmRyelJLV0tzMzFZN193QWc6MA

The deadline for submission of workshop outlines is FRIDAY APRIL 16th 2010 (so to keep things simple we have extended the deadline for posters to the same date).
Proposers will be notified of the outcome by Friday May 14th at the latest.

We are excited that the conference will provide so many opportunities for members of the network to share their work with others, and look forward to welcoming you to a very lively event. Conference registration will be available soon

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When: September 14th 2010
Where: University of Brighton

Confirmed Keynote: Professor Deanna Petherbridge

The underlying theme for this year’s DRN conference is the variety of ways in which drawing can generate new knowledge and understanding. How can we ensure that drawing research is recognised as rigorous? How does it differ from other tools of enquiry? Who uses it and why?

The format of the conference has been designed to provide maximum opportunities for our research community to share ideas and work in progress.  The programme will include plenary keynotes, a display of peer-reviewed posters and workshop sessions with contributions from a variety of disciplines to open up discussion of the sub-themes identified in the conference title:

• Observation. What is particular about discovery through observational drawing?
• Mapping. How does drawing support the generation of conceptual relationships and new understanding – for instance, through diagrams, mind mapping and other forms of visualisation?
• Dialogue. What is the role of drawing in enabling and documenting communication and dialogue?

Poster Submissions:
We invite proposals for research posters (maximum size A1 landscape or A2 portrait format) addressing any aspect of the conference themes. Posters may report work in progress or outcomes of completed projects and can be handmade or printed, monochrome or multi-coloured, predominantly text- or image-based.

The deadline for submission of poster proposals is Friday April 9th 2010.

Please complete this online Proposal Form by clicking this link. The proposals will be peer-reviewed, and proposers will be notified of the outcome by Friday April 30th.

Booking for the conference itself will be available VERY shortly.  If you are looking for accomodation please download the Recommended Accommodation List here, or you can view this website: http://hotels.brighton.co.uk/index.asp

We look forward to seeing many of you at Brighton (with or without posters!) for what promises to be a lively and engaging event.

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