Thematic Societies

Observation Drawing Sessions with Juliet Sugg

Object sketching - 11th october

I was optimistic for signing up to this session as I was eager to further practice my drawing skills whilst also using this experience as inspiration for my Anti- Habit mark making project. On arrival each table within the room had an object placed in the centre. It was our choice to select a table and draw this object for 40 minutes. What I liked about this task was that we were also given the freedom to use precisely whatever medium we liked, allowing for ease of experimentation.

First Abstract Object

Second Exercise

With this study we then moved to another table and were given the possibility of starting another drawing using this new object, or adapting our first study. I liked the interesting natural forms amongst the second composition which I thought I could implicate within the rock formation in my first drawing so I decided to continue the piece.

Second Abstract Object

My Drawn Hybrid Composition

Planet B, Here and Now with Vivian Hartung

18th October

This workshop was based on the theme of environmental migrants and from this how we could illustrate and come up with futuristic and speculative scenarios. Understanding that the number of environmental migrants is rising makes us question things like where will these people move to, why are they moving in the first place and what problems could this mass movement create in the future.

What if the prediction of 660,000 migrants into europe doubled each year up until 2100 and what if these people were to all enter one country alone?

Our task was to look at an article, select a fact and then think of a 'What if' scenario based on the theme that we found inspired a creative idea. My fact was 'According to the UN 660,000 environmental migrants will come into Europe each year by 2100'. From this I was able to think What if this number actually doubled over the next few years and what if these people all go to one country supposed to just any country within Europe. From this I did research into which country held/holds the most Environmental migrants, which currently happens to be Germany. I therefore envisioned of the back of this a city (e.g. Berlin) that is so overcrowded to the point where there is physically no space for people to enter let alone inhabit and start a life there.

This raised questions like 'In the future could these migrants have there own government as means of tackling the crisis?', ' would there be a process of elimination that they would have to go through?'