Some thoughts on the field of play, where thinking happens and understanding grows:
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media is a place where thinking happens, where ideas develop and are clarified, where understanding grows, both for authors and for readers.unique aspects of two types of media: spreadsheets and written textsa certain kind of 21st century technology enthusiast declares the death of drawing after 40,000 years. We find the death pronouncement not just premature, but unfounded, undermined by basic conceptual error.We discussed in part 4, Picasso’s “Plain Bull”, that what’s true for interpretation of the real world (we need simplifications to understand it) is also true of high-fidelity models in the virtual world. Indeed the higher the fidelity to the real world, the more we are dependent on simplified representations for understandingSome specific characteristic aspects of drawing and modeling in architectural and engineering domains, exemplified by the work of Louis Kahn and August Komendant, at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort WorthFresh ideas and ideas that have gone stale and need to be repurposedHuman thinking, though limited, is very effective. Some very simple observations about what’s happening when we think, the nature of the field of play in which we think, where understanding growsTangerine, using recognition of the fundamental significance of the function of drawing, is going to create the future of drawing and the future of digital spatial media
