1. Hélène AARTS [ TU Eindhoven ]
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Hélène AARTS studied art (painting and graphical arts) and didactics at The Academy of fine Arts in Tilburg and the Design Academy in Eindhoven. In
drawing classes and in recent papers (Porto 2013, Cyprus 2014, Antwerp 2015) she focuses on idea generation, experiencing space and research by
drawing. Currently working as a visual artist (painting, drawing) and assistant professor (drawing and Media) at the faculty of The Built Environment at
Eindhoven University of Technology (since 2002). She also developed and lectured (8 years) new drawing curricula for the faculty of ‘Industrial Design’
TUE. Before, she was assistant professor at the faculty of Industrial Design and at the department of Civil Engineering at Delft University of Technology
for more than 10 years. Next to this, she also developed and lectured new drawing curricula for the faculty of Industrial Design at Twente University
of Technology. Recently she started an ambitious collective with 3 architects/designers (www.tekenmeesters.nl) that aims to promote (courses and
activities) drawing by hand for the professional architect and designer.
“The un-conscious consistency of space”
‘How are we able to experience space through drawing?’ is the leading question within this drawing workshop. How to trans-
late those experiences in two dimensional images is another one. The ADSL week has the overall theme consistency. It is the
title of the last, but never written, memo of Italo Calvino’s The six memos for the next millennium. He writes about the quali-
ties that good literature should keep. But what should be the consistent factor in architecture and in space? With the whole
group of students we will be surrounded by one space the entire week to discover the consistency of that spatial reality. After
Henri Lefebvre (La production de l’espace) you could describe space as the interaction of three closely related activities. The
first one is conceived space, the empirically observed space, which is concrete and physical. The second one is perceived space,
the abstract space, which is a mental construction of it. During the workshop you make all kinds of mental constructions of
that space, by drawings and by modelling and from modelling to drawing again. In the third aspect, lived space you bring the
physical and mental space together, which is the conception of space. You work individually as well as in small groups for the
conception of space, starting with the space through which we are all surrounded. The workshop is filled with all kinds of ex-
periments in drawing space. In the end, after the group experience, consistency in content and presentation takes form.
1_ 2_ Spatial Imagination, students work after Matisse,
The Red Studio - 2011
3_ Blind drawing, Jin Daquin, Ghent 2014
4_ Final work -one of 3- Shone Beekman, ADSL 2014