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• Drawing On: Re-appropriation and Representation

  Vol. 4 (2025)

  Re-appropriation and Representation are critical design practices. Underlining the dynamism of design’s process of inquiry, re-appropriation engages with the present by adopting a mediating role between the past and future. Codes from the past and imaginaries of the future are re-appropriated through operations such as re-drawing, re-making, re-writing, re-imagining, re-imaging and re-situating; things are re-presented, given presence again, a new world disclosed by an architectural project. Drawing On: Re-Appropriation and Representation, building on an associated research-by-design symposium of the same name organised by Paddi Alice Benson, Kieran Cremin, En Fang, Paul Pattinson, Paula Szturc, and Leo Xian, explores work which moves towards the reinvigoration of design as a dynamic field of play in time. As a prelude to the issue, Gijs Wallis de Vries’ offers an account of a search for Piranesi’s elusive concept of the Pensile City, and Dorian Wiszniewski and Christopher Pierce reflect on the ‘dynamics of recurrence’ in design practice, re-visiting Paul Ricœur‘s description of representation through ‘mimesis’.

  The full issue is available to view here Drawing On: Re-appropriation and Representation.

  Editors
  Chris French, Piotr Lesniak, Dorian Wiszniewski

• Drawing On: Architecture Design Research

  Vol. 3 (2019)

  Drawing On: Architecture Design Research launched on 3rd October, 2019. It presents work from selected contributions to the first Annual Design Research Conference, held in Sydney in September 2018, organised by Mathew Aichison, Sarah Breen Lovett and Rachel Couper. This partial, representative survey of the array of Australasian architectural research by design practices presented at that conference offered authors an opportunity to further inquiries first presented at that event. These inquiries question established categorisations of design research, framing issues which inevitably converge around representation, and articulated through a range of media. The issue puts forward the idea that working by or through design already entails knowledge of and research into and for design.

  The full issue is available to view here Drawing On: Architecture Design Research.

  Editors
  Dorian Wiszniewski, Konstantinos Avramidis, Sophia Banou, Chris French, Piotr Lesniak, Maria Mitsoula

• Drawing On: Surface and Installation

  Vol. 2 (2018)

  Drawing On: Surface and Installation launched in March 2018. Contributions responded to the provocation that surfacing and installing —and recording surfaces and installations— as related but distinct practices are key design-research methods, engaging both drawing in and between worlds and the world. As a prelude to this issue, and as a means of entering into questions of surface and installation, Drawing On: Surface and Installation hosts a record of a conversation between Alexander Brodsky, Mark Dorrian and Richard Anderson.

  The full issue is available to view here Drawing On: Surface and Installation.

  Editors
  Dorian Wiszniewski, Sebastian Aedo, Konstantinos Avramidis, Sophia Banou, Chris French, Piotr Lesniak, Maria Mitsoula

• Drawing On: Presents

  Vol. 1 (2015)

  Drawing On: Presents was released in September 2015. It contains contributions from researchers undertaking long-term research projects and from emerging practitioners and students engaged in periods of intense study. These contributions either present work undertaken as part of an ongoing design-research enquiry or present reflections on design as a research methodology.

  The full issue is available to view at Drawing On: Presents.

  Editors
  Dorian Wiszniewski, Konstantinos Avramidis, Chris French, Piotr Lesniak, Maria Mitsoula