Dear Steve
Please book me a place at the forum
with regards
Aileen

Dr Aileen M Stackhouse
School of Fine Art
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design
University of Dundee
Dundee DD1 4HN

Tel: 01382 345306/291 (Fine Art Office)
Mob: 07878814454
http://www.vrc.dundee.ac.uk/Research/Aileen_Stackhouse.html
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Latest information on the drawing research forum that will take place at
Wimbledon College of Art on 20 March 2007.
DRN readers are asked to contact Steve Garner to secure a place (and a
lunch) as numbers are restricted.
Steve Garner
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Networking in Drawing Research

A one-day Forum on drawing research


Wimbledon College of Art in partnership with the Drawing Research
Network will host a one-day Forum on

Tuesday 20th March 2007

Keynote speaker to be announced.

The topic of Drawing - research, practice and role in education - is at
the core of current debate. 

There is considerable academic and public interest in drawing. We see
increased participation in traditional and digital drawing and increased
public inquisitiveness about that most fundamental human capacity of the
hand and brain to devise and construct meaningful marks and images with
various media.

Furthermore, a drawing research community is clearly emerging, largely
consolidating around universities offering art and design subjects, but
also within multidisciplinary contexts. This community has many
indicators of maturity: there are international drawing conferences,
drawing journals, professors of drawing, and PhD students. There are
links between this community and other, more established research
domains (e.g. education, fine art, psychology, computing and
engineering). This drawing research community embraces vibrant practical
cultures within art and design where participants are as likely to
engage in research through drawing as research into drawing.

The current agenda for drawing research is varied and includes the
creation of theoretical perspectives, the place of practice in research,
the cross-curricular value of drawing, drawing and creativity, the
disparate nature of drawing knowledge, the lack of common reference
points, revealing drawing research methodologies, the appropriate means
of disseminating research findings and the impact on education.

The forum aims to provide an opportunity to focus on the achievements to
date in the field and whether an infrastructure for drawing research and
networks (and networks within networks) need to be established.

We would like to invite you to participate in the discussions that the
day aims to facilitate.

Schedule

10.30  Arrival and refreshments
11.00  Welcome and introduction, Professor Anita Taylor
11.30  Keynote speaker
12.30  Buffet lunch
1.30   Presentations (in the Centre for Drawing project space)
2.45   Forum discussion  
5.00   Close (refreshments available)

Wimbledon College of Art, Merton Hall Road, London SW19 3QA


For further information, contact Claire Foss on 020 7514 9706 or e-mail
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