Thinking through Drawing 2012: Drawing in STEAM
Thinking through Drawing 2012. The event brought together artists, educators, scientists, medical practitioners, philosophers, engineers, computer scientists, and more, to examine the uses of drawing across Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths.
A highlight of the symposium was the practical emphasis, with communal drawings on walls and floors, and dynamic inventive workshops using and exploring drawing in a wide range of ways.
Conference proceedings will be published in 2013 in a special edition of Tracey drawing journal, on Drawing and Cognition. Video footage of presentations and workshops will also be available in 2013.
How is drawing used within and between these disciplines? What is the relationship between drawing in the Arts and STEM subjects? What is our current understanding of drawing, cognition and learning, and how is it contributing to curriculum development and instructional design in these areas?
Thinking through Drawing 2012 addressed these issues, exploring learning and teaching practices and new research directions. The symposium functioned as an active discursive platform in which we considered the place of drawing across disciplines and professions.
We were joined by colleagues from around the world in order to share practice and discussion across countries as well as disciplines.
To register your interest in Thinking through Drawing 2013, October 25-26th, NYC please e mail drawingandcognition@gmail.com
This looks like a bid to attach the practice of drawing to institutionally secure funding streams, namely the STEM areas. This seems a rather dubious and ultimately self-defeating strategy, at least where the practice of drawing within the fine arts is concerned. In the end it may be that the arts must prove their utility to the STEM subjects if they are to exist within the academy. Fortunately, we have not yet reached that point. What is needed now is resistance to the arts’ reduction to measurable usefulness, not capitulation to it.
The way I see it is that drawing is a tool that enables us to see things differently which is, I would argue, a valuable part of creative thought. The ability to think creatively is needed across all disciplines and environments. Artists should be at the forefront of creativity debates, after all, we like to test boundaries, cross disciplines and adapt to new environments and we tend to eschew the status quo and elitism. Ken Robinson’s TED lecture http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html expresses this neatly.
Our project stems from a common love of drawing, and an interest in how it can help us to think and to live. Our motive is to explore a wide range of drawing practices, and to recognise its widespread uses in art, education and life, not just in fine art practices. Drawing makes sense of our lives – which are never useless. If a funding stream wanted to give us money to promote drawing, great! Drawing isn’t a containable practice. I see it like yoga – I am really glad that people have recognised how helpful it is, and more people are doing it. BUT I do totally agree Peter that ‘measurable outcomes’ are very scary and we shouldn’t get sucked into only working in areas where we can quantify drawing’s usefulness. I think that there is no such thing as useless drawing….
I think both Peter and Susan make valid points. Surely even scientists of the creative, cutting edge variety would not want their work to be reduced to ‘measurable usefulness’. When the Wright brothers made their first flying machine many people thought they were crazy. What was the use of that? Look at the industry that grew out of it. The phrase ‘useful knowledge’ is often used these days. I wonder where one would find useless knowledge? Artists are not necessarily more creative than those working in other disciplines but perhaps when artists and scientists begin to collaborate they can produce new or unexpected insights.
FYI drawing your goals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zESeeaFDVSw&list=FL_zsQEFM1fwqi20b3JEj1Qg&index=11
Thanks for this Ziska!
http://stemtosteam.org/
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
“STEM to STEAM: Full Circle
from Education to Economy”
Expert Panel at SXSWedu
March 4–7, 2013
RISD President John Maeda will moderate panelists from
Sesame Workshop, Adobe, Blue School/Blue Man Group and Yale,
revealing the critical role of art/design in innovation
SXSWedu Conference
500 E 4th St
Austin, TX
http://www.stemtosteam.org
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And, if you are posting on additional
Drawing in STEAM | International Drawing and Cognition
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