THINKING OUT LOUD: Exploring why do I draw, how do I write and what I hope to communicate

It has always been a personal anecdote of mine to explore drawing through words and writing through visuals. And that is how I often use the terms "drawn words and written visuals". The simple thought behind it is that when we look at something visual, we process it through verbal interpretation. Similarly, when we read something, we immediately attempt to visualise it in our minds.

One of the first memories of drawing in my student years is of participating in the act of creating a drawing not just as a final product, but rather imbibing it as a part of the thought process. Various types of drawings and diagramming techniques often complemented various enquiries of design processes. However, I often found the drawing itself to be a bit restrictive when I attempted to communicate design intentions beyond the architectural disciplinary bubble and would thus often attempt to write about spatial ideas in a more introspective and storytelling language. Through these explorations, I often attempt to break the bubble that drawing is the primary medium of communication for architects. I so very much wish that there were more intense writing studios also as a part of architectural education. Maybe more young architects would feel comfortable using writing also as a means of communication akin to confidently using drawings as their primary visual language. I am just openly thinking about this, would we reach a far wider audience if we could write about design for the general public at large too? Writings which are beyond the academia or plush magazines bubble. I don't know the answer to this but it will remain one of my experiments.

So in the following part of this blog post, I will share a few of my past drawing explorations. In the next blog post, I will share the write-ups