Workshops

Workshops at Drawing Matter are an important part of our programme and offer students and practitioners a unique opportunity to engage closely with our collection of architectural drawings. Our workshops activate the collection through observation, discussion, and practical exercises.

We always collaborate closely with tutors and practitioners tailoring each session to specific pedagogical briefs or research interests, and encourage rich conversations between participants with divergent voices and backgrounds.

Over the last ten years, workshops have focused on drawing typologies and different uses of drawing in the design process—such as surveys, sketchbooks, working, construction, and presentation drawings—as well as images that address specific aspects of a research or design brief, from cities, staircases, and exhibitions, to public housing.

Workshops can take place for a half day, full day, or over several days across a week or entire semester. 

Contact workshops@drawingmatter.org to discuss organising a workshop. For research visits relating to the Drawing Matter Collection please contact collection@drawingmatter.org. 

Suggested References

Catalogue of drawings used in previous workshops
Selection of workshops and events in 2024

Quantum Collecting
Register Podcast 
Superurbanism Podcast

Drawing Exercises   
In the Archive

Parataxis 
Archives, or Ardor
Conjunction and Incongruity

Design Starts: Loughborough School of Architecture at Shatwell Farm  
S.A.U.L. 4th Year: De Rerum Natura / In the Manner Of  
Adaptations: A Teaching Studio at Cornell