Architectural Animality - drawings out for a walk

RESEARCH BACKGROUND: The act of drawing is central to architecture. When exhibited, architectural drawings tend to be treated as either representations of a given building, or as artworks in themselves. This work did something different; it examined how drawings are part of the design process. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: 'Architectural Animality - drawings out for a walk', was produced for an exhibition dedicated to an enquiry into the nature of the act of drawing. The work was a composition of multiple pieces, being constituted by 12 individual drawings/images/objects. The project explored how diverse ideas can become productively entangled through the drawings that take part in the design process. Working with an architectural project still in early stages of design development, the many influences and ideas at play led to thinking about that stage of design development as somewhat 'wild' - like a complex ecosystem of interdependent but as-yet-unclear relations. This project tested how the process of composing this complex ecosystem into an exhibition assemblage could become a meaningful part of the design process. As such, this was not an exhibition of either a process or a finished product, but rather an experiment in folding the process of exhibiting into the design process. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: This work was an invited commission by curators, Leonie Matthews (architect and educator), and Amanda Alderson (art curator). This exhibition bought together local and national artists and architects to create and present original works that explored drawing. The Mundarin Arts Centre, set up in 1979, is funded by the West Australian Government via the Department of Arts and Culture and the Shire of Mundaring. This exhibition was also supported by the Australian Institute of Architects. A small fee accompanied the commission, in addition to airfares to install the work in Western Australia and speak on an associated panel.研究背景：绘图活动是建筑学的核心环节。建筑绘图在展出时，通常要么被视作特定建筑的呈现载体，要么本身即被当作独立艺术品。本项研究另辟蹊径，探讨绘图活动如何作为设计流程的组成部分发挥作用。 研究贡献：《建筑性——漫步中的绘图》（Architectural Animality - drawings out for a walk）为一场聚焦探究绘图活动本质的展览而创作。该展览作品由多件单元组成，涵盖12幅独立绘图、影像及实物作品。本项目探究了参与设计流程的绘图，如何使多元理念得以富有成效地相互交织融合。本次研究依托尚处于设计开发初期的建筑项目，期间诸多影响因素与创作理念相互作用，使得研究团队将该设计阶段视作某种意义上的“野性状态”——如同一个由相互依存但关系尚未明晰的要素构成的复杂生态系统。本项目旨在验证：将这套复杂生态系统整合为展览装置的过程，如何能够成为设计流程中富有意义的组成部分。因此，该展览并非展示设计流程或最终成品，而是一场将展览制作流程融入设计流程的实验性探索。 研究意义：本作品由策展人莱奥妮·马修斯（Leonie Matthews，建筑师兼教育工作者）与阿曼达·奥尔森（Amanda Alderson，艺术策展人）特邀创作。本次展览汇聚了本地及全国范围内的艺术家与建筑师，共同创作并展示围绕绘图主题展开的原创作品。曼达林艺术中心（Mundarin Arts Centre）成立于1979年，由西澳大利亚政府通过艺术与文化部以及曼达林郡提供资助。本次展览同时获得澳大利亚建筑师协会（Australian Institute of Architects）的支持。本次受邀创作除获得赴西澳安装作品并参与相关专题研讨小组发言的差旅补贴外，还配有少量创作酬金。