Architecture fellow at Taubman College Rosalyne Shieh will present her paper, titled “Drawing Unthinkable Futures,” for the “Drawing Out 2010” conference at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) on April 7-9 in Melbourne, Australia.

Shieh’s will addresses how the tools and techniques of architectural representation are multiplying and merging with the means of fabrication, and that the space between drawing and form is a critical site of architectural invention. Her paper investigates the projective potentials of architectural drawing and presents an experiment of architectural drawing as a means to unexpected futures.

A creative collaboration between RMIT and the University of Arts London, “Drawing Out” explores drawing across the boundaries of disciplines and addresses drawing as a way of thinking and communicating in the twenty-first century.

“Drawing Out” engages professional organizations and investigates the role of drawing in its widest possibilities, such as physical and virtual drawing; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural practices; digital schemas; fashion templates; architectural and engineering designs; creative writing; media and communications concepts; cartography and scientific schematics; architectural and mathematical modeling; business and financial mapping; and legal, educational and political visualizations.

For more information about “Drawing Out 2010,” visit their website.