ECOSYSTEMIC DRAWING

Pratt Institute School of Design

Interior Design Graduate Option Lab

[ description from syllabus ]

This course is intended to enable students to develop strategic representational techniques for illustrating complex ecological relationships. It will provide them with the conceptual and visual tools required for operative and generative “drawing” production as a mode of spatial practice. They will each produce images with a variety of 2D and 3D software as demonstrated in lab sessions in order to interrogate specific ecological relationships, at both the global and local level. This may include mapping exercises illustrating supply chains, environmental feedback loops, or boundary conditions between species and their immediate environments. The course will contain a lecture sequence on the history and theory behind computational techniques used in biologically-influenced design. It will focus on using parametric design and animation software (including 3DS Max, Rhino, and Grasshopper, among others) to generate complex geometry, and allow the students to develop unique and novel compositional workflows for producing digital collage as an apparatus for iterative, adaptive spatial design.