[Full Call for Papers at www.interstices.auckland.ac.nz]Please distribute to your networksInterstices Under Construction Symposium: The Traction of Drawing Auckland 14-15 November 2009 Keynote speaker: Prof Marco Frascari, Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism Carleton University, Ottawa Why raise the issue of drawing again? With the proliferation and maturation of digital technologies, what is the use of the hand and the traces it makes on clay, stone, wood or paper? This symposium seeks to examine the technologies of drawing – their marks, lines, scratches, furrows, incisions, touches, dots and dashes, inscriptions, string lines, stains and blotches; pencilled, inked, chalked, brushed, illuminated or erased on diverse grounds. ...

Pulling in pieces of geometry, geology, alchemy, philosophy, politics, biography, biology, mythology, and philology from alien territories, one should write and draw with hesitation, discovering the multiple aspects of graphesis, a generative graphic process understood in its slow making.

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Drawing as tool, technique and technology exteriorises the mind and emotions; it makes present the invisible. Drawing as a forecasting, predictive medium aims at a destination; it has a scope and end, it designates. Projecting, throwing forward orthogonal or oblique lines, it can sever, as in sections and plans. In draughting, as an act of thought, drawing seeks enactment: the making of lines which instruct further making in implementation. Or it translates: from drawing to building and building to drawing. In sketches, outlines, and studies we may pursue an allusive idea through the traction of lines. The formative force of an idea, emanating from the body as from the mind, seeks ever greater precision, often in successive drafts or erasures. Conversely, gestures, traces or tracks of the line can be eventful, punctuate flows like notation in music, or regulate flows like a programme or grammé.

Such are the issues this symposium seeks to examine and to which we invite you to contribute.

The symposium will be held on 14-15 November 2009 at the Design Theatre, School of Architecture and Planning, The University of Auckland, 22 Symonds St, Auckland.

We welcome postgraduate students, academics and practitioners to present their investigations in 20 minute papers. Please send a 500 word abstract of your presentation to Tina Engels-Schwarzpaul (tina.engels@aut.ac.nz) by 24 July 2009. Abstracts will be double-blind refereed and, if accepted, published on the Interstices website (www.interstices.auckland.ac.nz).

Those who present at the symposium will be invited to submit their reworked papers for double-blind refereeing, to be published in Interstices 11: A Journal of Architecture and Related Arts[1] in 2010.

We look forward to your contribution!

[1] Interstices: A Journal of Architecture and Related Arts received an A in the Australian Research Council’s Journal Ranking Exercise 2009.

Tina Engels-Schwarzpaul

01/07/2009 12:29 pm