The Power of Drawing
Video Summary
In this video, we discuss why drawing is an excellent tool to contribute to a critical approach to urban design and spatial planning. Thus, an approach that:
(1) uncovers the injustices people experience, or the unequal chances they have to access opportunities to make a good and happy life for themselves.
(2) a critical approach that also comes up with strategies for emancipation and change.
Lecturers
Caroline Newton is an urban planner, an architect, and a political scientist. Her work and research focus on the social and political dimensions of design.
Caroline's research interests encompass (informal) housing and participatory upgrading, the complexity of architecture and planning in post-colonial contexts, and the methodological and pedagogical obstacles inherent in a designerly approach to knowledge development.
Caroline advocates for revitalised urban professional participation and the reintroduction of advocacy to the forefront of planning and spatial practises. She advances a critical and involved approach to strategic planning, presenting planning techniques as acts of resistance, as enablers of alternative spatial possibilities and imaginations.
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