How can the act of drawing be deployed as a method for generating knowledge?

OM Ungers writes in “City Metaphors” (1982) that: “A model is a structure, a pattern, along the line of which something is shaped…To make a model is to find coherence…to visualize the complexity of appearances in a more ordered way.” I see drawing as an equivalent tool to making a model. A drawing is also “a structure, a pattern, along the line of which something is shaped.” To draw is to find coherence and create order.

Drawing is a powerful tool that can be used to visualize environmental policies, societal customs, and ecological relationships. As a method, drawing can frame questions and encourage new connections in trying to make sense of initial musings.

What follows in this section are a few examples of my own explorations of slowing down, drawing as a method, and trying to visualize complexity in a way that tells a story.

MLA I Summer Online Series Part of a collection of models used to introduce incoming first-year landscape architecture students to concepts, drawing conventions, software, and techniques before beginning their graduate studies.

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What’s on my drawing board lately; a rotating collection of snapshots, sketches, and thoughts in-progress.