THE DRAWING ROOM

Weeks 1/2/3/4/7: Mondays and Thursdays 3.00 > 6.00pm

Weeks 5/6: Mondays,Thursdays, and Saturdays 3.00 > 6.00pm

Weeks 11/12/13/14: Mondays and Thursdays 3.00 > 6.00pm

On the strength of the current Labor Government’s recently announced Arts Policy, RMIT University has decided to capitalise on the coinciding optimism in the arts and will soon be announcing a New School of Drawing.

This architecture studio will focus on drawing. It will focus on how to draw, when to draw. Why to draw. What to draw on. What to draw with. We will be drawing at scale. And we will be drawing not to scale. We will be drawing by looking. And we will be drawing from our imaginations.

We will draw alone, but as a group. We will draw from each other’s drawings. We will draw from instructions. We will draw from instinct. We will draw with your eyes open, and with our eyes closed. We will draw with our dominant hands, and with our non-dominant hands. And we will draw with our feet.

Tutor: Jan van Schaik is an artist and architect based in Melbourne. He is the director of MvS Architects, a creative-practice researcher and senior-lecturer at RMIT Architecture & Urban Design, the founder of+Concepts, designer of Lost Tablets, and a creative sector consultant at Future Tense.

We will draw perfect drawings. Will draw messy drawings. We will draw with great care. And we will draw with exploding bursts of energy. We will correct our drawings making them living learning documents. We will add notes to our drawings so that our drawings can come to explain themselves to those viewing them in our absence

The entire studio will be hand drawn on one piece of A1 paper and in one A4 notebook.

There will be no use of printers or photocopiers.

There is no need to already know how to draw to take this studio. But to want to learn is a prerequisite.

And what, I hear you ask, will we be drawing? We will be drawing the RMIT New School of Drawing. And through drawing it, we will design it.

Material requirements

• 1 x 224gsm A1 sheet of C.a Grain Drawing Paper

• 1 x A1 hard flat folio

• 1 x large moleskin hardcover 13 x 21 cm 165gsm notebook with no grid

• Blue painter’s masking tape

• Workable Matt Fixative Pens, pencils, erasers

• Scale ruler