The DRN’s 2010 conference, hosted and organised by colleagues at the University of Brighton, will take place on 14 September 2010.
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 one or two short 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 five parallel sessions in the morning and four in the afternoon, enabling around 17 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. Further information, a full programme and up to the minute news can be found on the DRN website,
here.
