The Big Draw is a national event that has taken place for many years now, the idea is simple, get the nation drawing and to appreciate how creative and fun drawing can be. With this discipline at the heart of our professional practice the UAL Foundation Diploma team decided to put on an event that would combine the act of drawing with a team building exercise involving other students from various art course within the college. The Big Draw sets an underlining theme as a basis for inspiration and this year was no different, with "Draw Tomorrow" being set as the 2013 challenge.
Taking this theme into consideration and with our recent trip to the V&A to visit the "Memory palace exhibition", we wanted to build upon the identity of future cities, what would our cities be like in the near future? What eccentric architecture and new found abstract forms would exist? and how futuristic would we become? The event was split into 3 parts, with an outgoing and influential talk form Maria Swepson about capturing and drawing architecture and looking into the work of some of the icons that use drawing as a fundamental to their design process, Will Alsop, Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry to mention a few. We then stepped out into the atrium where in teams the students had to design, create and build completely out of paper (something that we set as a challenge itself) Once all the individual pieces of architecture had been built, arranged and combined together to portray a future city scape, we could begin the draw.
The afternoon was filled with creativity energy, engagement and the students definitely got an experience, the work produced was a fantastic standard and with over 120 students taking part, it was great to see such a large space within the college finally get used for something worth while. We are now in the process of filling out our application to be nominated for an award where by the big draw has taken place within a educational establishment dealing with students and pushing the process of drawing. I would love more than anything for the students to receive the recognition they so simply deserve, and look forward to the Big Draw 2014.
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