HAND DRAWING AND SCIENTIFIC INTERPRETATION: GEOMORPHOLOGY AND ISOMORPHOLOGY

Hand Drawing and Scientific Interpretation: Geomorphology and Isomorphology 

The focus of the course is students learning how to draw for combining scientific interpretation and artistic practice.  In the course students explore the art–science integration in morphological study, an element of inquiry at the heart of sustainability action.  

This course is inspired and informed by designing by hand, and then building a bicycle to cross Iceland, and riding that bicycle between glaciers and volcanos, and then drawing those landscapes of Iceland for the purpose of interpreting geology.   

This course is broken into five sections and presents drawing as a means of developing and disseminating knowledge, and of understanding and engaging with the diversity of natural forms of the landscape, plants and minerals, and theoretical objects such as mechanical devices used in research of natural systems. Students will learn how drawing can offer a means of scientific discovery and can be integral to the creation of new knowledge in science, engineering as well as in visual art. 

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Section 1: Drawing as a way of seeing and knowing  

Section 2: Drawing practice in science  

Section 3: Drawing resemblances in nature

Section 4: Isomorphogenesis: Drawing a dynamic morphology  

Section 5: Geomorphology: Drawing as pattern information extraction in the landscape