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What would drawing look like if it were invented today?

Our engagement with models involves the means with which we narrow our focus and sharpen our attention, within them.

This precisely is the function of technical drawing. To narrow our focus and sharpen our attention within models mental, physical, and digital. 

To encounter models without this engagement is to abandon understanding (of models) on “Superficial Island”. In reverse, looking at drawings without engaging the interplay between them and models, is in fact, not looking at drawings. You’re not “looking”, if you’re not engaging this process.

“Drawing” draws our attention and is the tangible embodiment of our being in models. Drawing is the durable footprint, or better, mind-print, of our engagement with models for interpretive and generative purposes as we imagine and produce what doesn’t, yet, exist.

What would drawing look like if it were invented today instead of long ago when models were mental and physical but not digital?

Download the TLDR Poster (PDF):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O-E1AMw3UlDacYVU_DCU004KBstKzqwz/view?usp=sharing

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About the author

Hi! My name is Rob Snyder, I’m on a mission to elevate digital models in AEC (architecture, engineering, and construction) by developing equipment for visual close study (VCS) within them, so that they supply an adequate assist to the engine of thought we all have running as we develop models during design and as we interpret them so they can be put to use in support of necessary action, during construction for example.