Invisible cities – drawing and close reading workshop.

In the workshop we read and discussed couple of chapters from Italo Calvino’s ‘Invisible Cities’. We chose a chapter ‘Thin cities 5.’ about Octavia – ‘ the spider-web city’ suspended above the clouds, between two steep and extremely high mountains. We were tasked with drawing the city based on the text.

First was the masterplan, created in 15 mins:

Then zoomed in view of one square of the masterplan, also created in 15 mins.

Then zoomed in, three perspective views, each drawn in about 2 minutes:

I drew them all using ipad (adobe fresco). Great workshop, really enjoyed it. As usual it was fascinating to see how each participant imagined the city and spaces differently, despite all coming from the same piece of text.