Parade Drawing Sessions
From Critical Practice Chelsea
KeyWords/Ideas from the Parade Drawing Sessions
Meeting 1: June 2, 2009:
Card Room: Cinzia, Ewelina, Ken, Marsha, Metod, Michaela, Neil
(Neil brought paper and drawing utensils; Marsha brought images for inspiration downloaded from the Internet)
- A “high-point” structure
- A form that can be stretched and/or moved
- Shell-like
- Sail-like
- Skin-like (inspired by an image of taupe drapes pulled back)
- Like a whale skeleton
- Like a butterfly net
- Footfall flows
- Circulatory flows
- Wind patterns - and flaps for blow through
- Shadows cast by the sun the at moves overhead
- Arborescent structures
- Mobile barrel structure (livestock watering) as an anchor
- Trees - living structures
- Anchor points
- Pillows
- Physical and symbolic load
- Top and bottom budgets
Meeting 2: June 10, 2009: Green Room: Cinzia, Ewelina, Ken, Marsha, Metod, Neal, Neil
- Base
- Modular structure
- Guy ropes/lines/wires
- Wooden lights
- Grid - irregular grid
- Flexible yet rigid
- Prototyping
- Form and strength - Neal's triangular structures
- Plane structures
- Isometric structures
- Bamboo
- Public space = More than just the ground
- Hot air balloons
- Prototyping and thinking through materials - in addition to drawing
- Budget for Elephant Trust Application
Return to Public Space

