Drawing Space / Marking Sensation

Harvard GSD

Designers often draw space digitally, and virtual reality creates vivid illusions of spatial experience. In an age of AI, how can we reconnect with the direct, here-and-now, bodily sensations that structure and inform these digital “spaces”? This course uses freehand charcoal drawing to activate wordless, multisensory experiences of space. Architectural historian and theorist Zeynep Çelik Alexander calls this “kinaesthetic knowing” and notes that it has long been an undercurrent in design…