Vol. 3 No. 5 (2026): Signifying Signs
Articles

Co-creation in Sketching Space

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  • Simon Twose
Simon Twose
Victoria University of Wellington
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/tribelon-4091

Published 2026-07-02

Keywords

  • Expanded Drawing,
  • Architectural experimentation,
  • Art Installation

How to Cite

Twose , S. (2026). Co-creation in Sketching Space. TRIBELON Journal of Drawing and Representation of Architecture, Landscape and Environment, 3(5), 92–101. https://doi.org/10.36253/tribelon-4091

Copyright (c) 2026 Simon Twose

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Abstract

Co-creation in Sketching Space reflects on a series of experimental sketch installations developed within the ongoing research project Expanded Drawing, which investigates the limits and possibilities of architectural drawing through multi-modal, spatio-temporal in­stallations. The research aims to intensify the open characteristics of architectural drawing and redirect them toward domains beyond drawing itself, proposing open architectural sketching as a way of sensing complex phenomena, including open natural systems. It asks whether expanded architectural drawing can create new encounters with ungraspa­ble phenomena, and what these encounters might reveal about our relation to them. The paper discusses the latest works in Expanded Drawing, focusing on how they intensify and problematise drawing’s authorship. Co-creation 01, 02 and 03 are “inhabitable sketches” in which multiple authors sketch live in space and remotely via Zoom, responding to dynamic feedback from diverse spatial subjects and from video records of their own acts of sketching. These installations amplify authorial input from multiple entities, engaging performative, gestural, temporal, material, and sensorial dimensions. The paper examines the role of other-than-human authors, the complex attention of human drawers, and the agency of both the spaces where drawing is produced and the spaces it seeks to capture, map, signify, predict, or control. Drawing on Posthuman ontologies and the work of prac­titioners such as Kirsty Badenoch and Nikolaus Gansterer, the paper outlines an expand­ed mode of architectural drawing that challenges long-standing conventions and opens drawing to auscultatory possibilities: drawing as a sensing device capable of producing new knowledge of space and of our relation to it.

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