Igor Silva - If these Walls could Speak
The Script‐Sketch‐Animate Elective is a short Design Representation Course that explores analysing socio‐political environments, history, culture, and people to inform place‐making. This is explored through hand‐drawing techniques, digital tools and film that teach visual communication and presentation methods. The context for the elective is based in Fietas, Pageview, in Johannesburg, and follows a Past, Present and Future narrative. The elective aims to develop each student's unique sketching identity. Sketching is an important architectural tool through which to explore imagined thoughts and ideas and articulate them into the actual visual realm. As Architects design for people, this elective aims at an understanding of architecture through the lived experience. It focuses on a person’s story to create deep empathy and understanding of a user in their context and uses film to explore experiential and emotive modes of unpacking and analysing the neighbourhood. Students managed to do field research in Fietas and at The Fietas Museum in 2020 before the lockdown and were able to generate good narratives and animations based on their experience. Whilst forced to work in isolation during the pandemic, students were required to become digitally versatile improving their quality of their work. The animations reference and develop a specific Manfred Hermer sketch that the students chose as a relevant starting point to their narratives. Hermer, M. (1978). The Passing of Pageview. Johannesburg. Ravan The 2020 class included seventeen students who all gave consent to showcase all of their animations in this playlist.
The Script‐Sketch‐Animate Elective is a short Design Representation Course that explores analysing socio‐political environments, history, culture, and people to inform place‐making. This is explored through hand‐drawing techniques, digital tools and film that teach visual communication and presentation methods. The context for the elective is based in Fietas, Pageview, in Johannesburg, and follows a Past, Present and Future narrative. The elective aims to develop each student's unique sketching identity. Sketching is an important architectural tool through which to explore imagined thoughts and ideas and articulate them into the actual visual realm. As Architects design for people, this elective aims at an understanding of architecture through the lived experience. It focuses on a person’s story to create deep empathy and understanding of a user in their context and uses film to explore experiential and emotive modes of unpacking and analysing the neighbourhood. Students managed to do field research in Fietas and at The Fietas Museum in 2020 before the lockdown and were able to generate good narratives and animations based on their experience. Whilst forced to work in isolation during the pandemic, students were required to become digitally versatile improving their quality of their work. The animations reference and develop a specific Manfred Hermer sketch that the students chose as a relevant starting point to their narratives. Hermer, M. (1978). The Passing of Pageview. Johannesburg. Ravan The 2020 class included seventeen students who all gave consent to showcase all of their animations in this playlist.