Contextualising Practice: recording, exploring and communicating.

This lecture was based on the status that drawing, photography and other forms of recording have in relation to the finished work of the designer. How does this recording affect their final outcomes? We also focussed on the way that designers communicate their ideas. 

The design process can be seen to have 2 sectors:
 Public and Private.

Private sector: Recording and Exploring.

Public Sector: Communicating. 

Drawing was the main focus of this lecture as a type of recording:

There are many different types of drawing/mapping/recording.

Christy Brown.

Brown uses drawing to create environment which has his sense of claustrophobia, which produces these strange sculptures as an outcome. This is an example of how drawing can shape the output of the designer.  

Observational Drawing: trying to explore and engage with the world around us, a slow and considered process.

Michael Taussig "I swear i saw this."
Taussig the anthropologist wanted to make a note of something which he help witness too, so decided to start creating observational drawings whenever he came across something of interest to him or something to do with his work. This shows this relationship between memory and drawing.

Photography: different from observational drawing. It is much quicker, almost instant. But does it lack the exploring and engaging with the world around us?

Could we reconfigure the design process?
Instead of the early stages of design- the recording and exploring- being private could these be public?
For example private sketchbooks being exhibited with the final outcome or these being the final outcome in themselves. 
The relationship between drawing and writing could be investigated through these sketchbooks being presented. Could a drawing extend from the sketchbook off the page and onto the wall in an installation type exhibit?