Scarlett Cibilich from Te Whare Wānanga o Wairaka, Unitec, School of Architecture is a finalist for her project 'Gleaning from the surfaces of the drawing[s] and the building[s]: a haptic practice'.
Project description
“Eyes are looking downwards, hunched over, inspecting, picking out.”
To glean is to pick over in search of relevant material. It is an act of habitual and opportune dialogue between maker and material artefact. Using their tools and hands, the urban gleaner does not yet know what they will make. They are driven by necessity to pick out, to collect, to scrape out, and to make, from what is left on the surfaces of the urban hardscape.
This body of work [work of the body] moves across the surface of the city [paper] in a quotidian drama of gleaning. Beginning with in-situ field drawings, the project proceeds through creative entanglements of text and drawing practices, gleaning new possibilities for design action that flow forth and begin again.
Drawings present in the project as artefacts, that record a continuing dialogue with mark making and material sampling as architectural informants for a speculative interaction with a city: positioning the activity of drawing as notional, opportune, and situated.
Through my creative practice, I explore a design methodology that is entangled with expansive provocations of surfaces connecting drawing, my body and building. In doing so, I look to the generation of architectural possibilities when practice is situated within several material registers, and architectural drawing responds.
“Reworking this drawing, moving about the walls and the floors. What have you found?”
“I am re-reading a city.”
