imprográfika

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Situated Drawing – Cartographies of Practice
Online, April 2 and 3, Thursday/Friday, 2026

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This Thursday April 2 imprografika presents a drawing story, methodology at “Nature Drawing Nature”, 2nd Online Seminar, organized by the Black Book Drawing and Sketching journal.Imprográfika with Anthi Kosma, Aikaterini Tsevdou, Aggeliki Papanikolaou, Demetra Papaspyrou (also known as metaphyta) are going to respond to this year´s issue that explores “Situated Drawing”.

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We will present the paper “Entangled Naturalisms: Drawing nature beyond media”, exploring drawing as a situated and embodied practice entangled with media — analogue, digital, and hybrid — drawing on-site, in [e]motion.

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We are truly happy to participate in such a specific and important event dedicated to observational and situated drawing.

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This thematic issue has invited contributions to explore place- and sense-based observational drawing as a form of knowledge-making. Drawing is approached as a way of mapping spatial, emotional, ecological, and embodied experiences—producing insights that extend beyond conventional cartography or data visualization.

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Situated Drawing: Practice, Place, and Conditionsfor Black Book Drawing and Sketching journal (Vol.7, N1)

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Seminar’s program here

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This thematic issue focus on how, where, and under what conditions drawing takes place. Rather than treating drawing as a neutral act, the issue foregrounds drawing as a situated and embodied practice, shaped by environment, context, and constraint.

We invite contributions that explore drawing as a form of thinking-with place—responsive to climate, terrain, temporality, access, tools, bodies, sensory experience, and institutional or material limits. Drawing is approached not simply as representation, but as an activity embedded in specific conditions of practice.

The issue welcomes practice-based research, critical reflections, visual essays, and hybrid contributions, engaging with field drawing, site-specific practice, environmental humanities, walking and durational practices, disability studies, and embodied methodologies.

Key questions include:
– How do place, weather, duration, or constraint shape drawing practices?
– What does it mean to draw from within an environment rather than about it?
– How does drawing outside the studio alter methods, meanings, and outcomes?

This issue aims to gather a focused collection of contributions that position drawing as an attentive, situated practice, producing knowledge through presence, condition, and engagement with place.

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ZOOM link for all sessions:
https://us05web.zoom.us/j/81891692363?pwd=ygaSxpaDXXEN5Bae4tddcsP8FlYAEj.1

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