Maria,
My PhD thesis is "Understanding Diagrams Based on Symbolic and Spatial Mapping". It deals with the issue of what constitutes a diagrams regardless of application or domain constraints.
I presented a paper at this years Information Visualisation Conference IV'07 titled "What is a diagram?". I hope you find it useful. Here is the link: http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/proceedings/iv/&toc=comp/proceedings/iv/2007/2900/00/2900toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/IV.2007.143
Hope you find it useful.
Dr. Kamaran Fathulla
Northampton Business School
School of Information Systems and Business Computing
The University of Northampton
United Kingdom
Tel: 0044(0)1604 892619
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Sent: Thu 09/08/2007 10:53
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Subject: Re: the importance of drawing and sketching in art and design education today
Hello Maria,
I'm Ana Leonor Madeira Rodrigues, Professor for Drawing at Architecture Faculty in Lisbon.
My doctor thesis was precisely about drawing as a thinking process, tacking architecture drawings and sketching as a case study "O Desenho, Ordem do Pensamento Architectónico" "Drawing, the Order of Architectonical Thinking" ed. Estampa, Lisboa 2000 (the order of the mind, the order of the self).
I wrote a few other things about it.
Drawing of architects is very interesting because it has a clear intention of communicating thoughts and different kinds of ideas, to himself and to others, so it is not disturbed by other less direct processes of a more artistic discipline. It may be an artistic drawing, in the end, but the first intention usually is simple communication.
The problem with this kind of biographical interchange is that it is written and published in Portuguese, and bibliography that is not written or translated to English it is usually not taken in consideration. It is a one way street we take from outside in but it seldom goes inside out.
Globalisation has to be English.
Good luck and will be interested in knowing your progress.
Ana Leonor
2007/8/7, Maria J. Lichtsteiner <[log in to unmask]>:
Hello
I am a PhD student and educator for drawing in HGK - Lucerne
Switzerland.
I am doing a PhD (practise based) on the question of the importance of drawing and sketching in
art and design education. I'm looking for empirical studies supporting the claim "Drawing is
thought". I have found some essays in "TRACEY" but
I haven't got a big bibliography on this subject.
I would appreciate any help and references to literature.
Thank You
Maria J. Lichtsteiner
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Ana Leonor M. Madeira Rodrigues
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