Abstract

Ever since the emergence of the Industrial Design profession and field, sketching has always played an important part in practice and in design education. Sketching is the designer’s language. At the same time, the field is changing; expanding, and the design sketching discipline is expanding likewise. The design sketching discipline becomes broader since designers’ activity covers a larger share of the process, and because design projects tend to show increasingly more variation in what is designed: services, systems, experience (Sander and Stappers 2013), next to products and spaces.

We believe the role of sketching and drawing has evolved and that there is an inadequate platform to explore and collaborate with academics, researchers and practitioners in this field. We propose that a new special interest group on Design Sketching and Drawing be created to fill this need.

To deliver meaningful sketching and drawing instruction in higher education, we should be exploring existing and emerging draw/sketch contexts and contemporary research efforts to understand the evolving domain of design sketching. As well, we should be exploring how emerging technologies used to disseminate design drawing knowledge might be best utilized in this new world of design. We also suspect that the traditional written paper about drawing are not the optimal methods of peer review, collaboration or pedagogy.

In a brainstorming session with design educators across the world, the workshop participants will explore, discuss and identify content and boundaries of the potential Design Draw SIG.

 

Bryan Howell, Brigham Young University, USA

Jan Willem Hoftijzer, TUD, Netherland