Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 32, No. 584.
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    [1]    From: Willard McCarty 
           Subject: drawing and thinking (27)

    [2]    From: Maria Spanovangelis 
           Subject: R: [Humanist] 32.583: drawing and thinking? (70)


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        Date: 2019-04-01 04:36:20+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty 
        Subject: drawing and thinking

On this subject there's quite a lot of papers and books on specialised
forms of drawing -- diagramming and flowcharting come immediately to
mind. On diagramming: from Venn's On the diagrammatic and mechanical 
representations of propositions and reasoning (1880) to Gardner's 
Logic machines and diagrams (1958), Larkin and Simon's Why a diagram 
is sometimes worth ten thousand words (1987), to Blackwell's Thinking 
with diagrams (2001), Dörfler's Diagrammatic thinking (2005) and 
Stjernfelt and Østergaard, Diagrammatic problem solving (2016). 
On flowcharting:from Playfair's The commercial and political
atlas (1801), Gilbreth and Gilbreth's Process charts (1921) to Krämer
and Ljungberg, Thinking with diagrams (2016). There's Swade's Automatic
computation (2010), with a reproduction of Babbage's Mechanical Notation
flowchart. Everyone will think of Tufte's books.

But digging deeper, perhaps by going wider, would be very good -- on the
kinaesthetics of thinking with the drawing instrument &c.

Yours,
WM
--
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Professor emeritus, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London;
Adjunct Professor, Western Sydney University; Editor, Interdisciplinary
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        Date: 2019-03-31 09:23:25+00:00
        From: Maria Spanovangelis 
        Subject: R: [Humanist] 32.583: drawing and thinking?

I don't work in this field, however I was a student at Liceo Classico (high
school with Greek and Latin grammar and literature) where I studied
philosophy,history of art, some basics about aesthetics, and I loved drawing
and knowing techniques. As a primary school teacher I'm fond of illustrators
and I was in contact with people working at museums offering laboratories to the
children. Let me know if my experiences can be useful to the debate.

Best regards

Maria Spanovangelis
spanov153@gmail.com


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                  Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 32, No. 583.
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        Date: 2019-03-30 10:19:13+00:00
        From: Ken Friedman 
        Subject: Research Request: Drawing and Thinking

Dear Colleagues,

Do any of the subscribers to this list work in the field of drawing and
thinking? I'm looking for someone with a focus on such questions as these:

- How does drawing represent reality?
- How does drawing help designers to shape future realities that do not exist
when they are drawn?
- What is the relationship between drawing and the evolving states of designed
artefacts?
- Does drawing make thinking visible?
- If drawing makes thinking visible, how does this take place?
- What effects do drawing create on evolving human thought?
- What relationships exist between drawing and other forms of information
visualisation?
- How does drawing function as a form of diagrammatic thinking?
- Do diagrams, models, and chart s represent a version of drawing?
- What relationships are worth considering between drawing and knowledge
representation of other kinds?
- What does the current literature across different fields tell us about
drawing?

This is an open-ended inquiry. If these topics suggest questions that I have not
asked, I'd be interested in suggestions.

At this point, I don't want to say more about my interest in the topic. I'm
interested in leaving this open while I wait to hear from others. I will post
some notes on the responses. If anyone wishes their thoughts and comments to
remain confidential, I will not post it.

Please write me directly - OFF LIST - at email ken.friedman.sheji@icloud.com

Thank you.

Ken




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