Thinking about how the class integrated all the senses into traditional and nontraditional design drawings, I ended up using a section line as a progression from the traditional section to a more emotional and evocative types of line drawings on a page. Each sense is separated out into a diffrent style of drawing with a diffrent pen type but combines to create a whole picture on the page.
some test drawings.
was down to the final pages in my sketchbook
The end result
First was our group pickle. This was the spicy pickle but salt was the main flavor I experienced. I examined the pickle with tongue and tooth independently before experiencing the pickle as a whole bite.
Next was strawberry. My biggest observation was something that I wasn’t thinking about, but another student pointed out: that each strawberry, even picked at the same time from the same farm, was pretty diffrent in flavor.
The bagel was such a mixture of flavors that I don’t actually know how to describe with words that arent just a retelling of the ingredients. Experientially the difference between inner and outer texture was the most important observation. 
At home I decided to go for a cup of tea. The experience of the cup of tea changes with every sip, as the tea cools, steeps, and more.
The first spot to sniff was the seawall. It lended itself to a section as the smells followed a repeating structure along the shoreline with diffrent parts of the shoreline emitting diffrent scents and being carried by the wind.
This became a multisensory map because we had so much time.
The forest became a site plan because the space was organized more complexly and irregularly. The odor here was much more faint to my nose.
The weekend was a quidditch tournament so the most prominent scent came from running all day.
Experimented with representing sheet music and gestural line drawing overlaid on top of each other to show a connection between the rhythm of the physical (wavelength) experience, visual (sheet music) experience, and emotional (expressed through line) experience.
For a quick first attempt, Im happy with the concept, but the execution was experimental at best.
I wanted to experiment with less static ways of representing audio in the landscape, as sound is inherently always in motion and the addition of a time element to the representation could add a whole new layer of meaning to the diagrammatic representation of it.
Experiment 1
https://youtu.be/9F-4s2HvxAs
Experiment 2
https://youtu.be/89TeN7c0mO8
With a lot more time involved in the drawing and animating of overlaid visuals this could represent a really compelling sound mapping exercise.
I started by walking without sight, down a set of stairs in the orchard. The lines represent the experience of my hand, the experience of my foot, with annotations and connected to a axonometric mapping of the actual staircase.
Next I set out to diagram the vibrations of the various handrails, where some feel really unstable and some felt really secure. Ultimately in connection to how well they are supported by walls.
Lastly for homework I wanted to explore the relationship between the door and stairwell in the landscape annex – the most awkward door I have ever encountered. I wanted to try a new style of sketching directly on top of digital photography. In this case it was only somewhat successful.
I started the exploration with an analysis of edge conditions and trip hazards, explored the transition of heat drawn away from my body by sitting on the cold cement, and tried to represent texture along the edge of a planting area.
Next I sat in the plaza and tried to imagine the world only from what I could hear. Annotating direction, rhythm, and amplitude of sound surrounding me.
I walked across the plaza looking for something to draw, and I noticed that through my thin shoes I could feel the difference in textures as I walked around. This map attempts to denote the rythm and feeling of my foot as I traveled across the plaza using only line. each segment of dotted line represents an individual step (although it is not to scale), with the expression of the line meant to indicate how the step felt: soft, sharp, etc.
Im calling the top drawing a texture map – the line attempts to communicate the soft and rough textures along the hands path of this moss covered tree limb.|
The bottom Drawing is about the sensorial experience of each step in the process of making a vegan take on a deep south bbq sandwich and bananna pudding desert.
*update*
(ive tried re-uploading these images but it is still cropping them weirdly)
In class I drew this sponge. It’s texture and squishiness were the most apparent feature. Drawing blindfolded I was focusing on the experience of my hand, but trying to translate this to a visual representation, while not being able to see the lines posed an intresting hand minds-eye coordination issue.
It came out well enough though.
For homework I posed this challenge to my roommates, to deliver me an object to draw – where I couldn’t know what it was. There was a lot of laughter as they scurried around the room scheming ways to make this as challenging as possible to me. I was sitting unsighted the whole time and that really built up the tension. The strangest object of all time was delivered into my hands, but as I investigated it it broke into pieces. Slowly I was able to figure out exactly what some of the objects were.
Even as I knew what the objects were drawing them on the page unsighted was still challenging. Ultimately though the lines were quite expressive and im very satisfied.
The drawings on the right end of the page were done after regaining sight.
From the in class exercise:
Before leaving home I spent some time thinking about the representation of sound waves. I really liked the mapping shown in class (by laureen I think?) for sound, but as the child of an audio engineer – who was reading the audio waveform of their own voice on old school analog oscilloscopes at the age of like 6 or something: I had to think about sound as a wafevorm, with its amplitude and directionality, bouncing off of hard surfaces. So drawing it here was my first experiment with that form of linework.
When I got into the nest, I noticed a big sign by the door I was by with axonometric floorplans for wayfinding. I took this as a convenience and as inspiration for the format of my drawing. This process work focused on getting the floorplans about right and analyzing sources and direction of sound.
From the top floor, looking down on the suspended classroom – which is the part of the Nest that I actually always assume inspired the name “nest” – I decided to try a 2d perspective plan view, because it kind of felt like the natural drawing to try this in.
ultimately, the final stacked axonometric felt the most satisfying though.
I also wanted to retouch the globe drawing from the beaty biodiversity museum as suggested. I tried the digital drawing process here. I have mostly good feelings about the result.
I got inspired to map an anthill from watching the movie A Bugs Life with my roommates this weekend. Luckily I live across the street from a park so it wasn’t hard to find a good bunch of ants to study from. Starting with a plan view didn’t feel appropriate for this cube because the real challenge was going to be the multidimensionality of the imagined tunnels of the anthill. Getting the heights of the tunnels moving around in space was the biggest challenge overall but I’m pleased enough with how it turned out.
I also took the chance to draw the beaty museum. Mapping the space was fun enough, but I became interested in the geographic diversity of the samples in the museum. The map of the earth overlaid on the museum was drawn completley freehand from memory and you can see how detailed my world geography is on the west coast of North America, and how far it devolves into the very simplistic shapes representing Africa and India.
These in Class Exercises represent an attempt to map movement and temporality. I was also sketching an idea for the Beaty Museum drawing, in class but by the time I got there I wasnt so intrested in that part of the idea anymore.
I started A1 Early, before class because I had nothing else to do at the time.
I was in Seattle and I found this interesting little space on the University of Washington’s campus.
“9 Trees. 9Spaces.”
I wasn’t using the axonometric cube method before class. I found sketching the landscape, which actually leant itself really well to a cube based method, was kind of difficult for me not using the method. I found that by the 30 min drawing I was practiced enough at the shapes and reading the space, but the time was so long that I kept adding more and more details to fill the time, adding texture and etc that it came out quite busy. For better or for worse. Maybe slightly for worse.
In class sketching my room, I felt like I did pretty okay. The curves of the hammock and desk was most the most challenging part after figuring out the actual shape of the room.
I wanted to continue this method with a bit of actual landscapes, so I drew my original landscape. From memory.
I drew some more on campus. At one of the community gardens south of the landscape annex, and at the landscape annex itself.
