Aga Khan Program Lecture: Catherine Mosbach, "Design is a Language: Being Receptive, Being in Motion"

Date: 

Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium (48 Quincy St., Cambridge)

Drawing works both ways. Behind the outline, there is a goal to be reached: to give visibility to the masses in the process of being produced. It is only a revelation of possibilities. It is clearly the outline that produces the narrative. The masses evolve at their own pace, whether micro or macro. The outlines are a matter of a 'self,' of a 'singular' that exposes itself to the 'multiple;' for the time being, we don’t know about tomorrow.

What would be our sensitive imprint if we gave up on interpretation, in other words, on the subtle interplay between the eye, sensitivity, and the raw material of a world that we look at and that looks back at us?

What would this imprint-trace-landscape-desire be if we gave up drawing, an instrument of open dialogue, revealing the living ongoing, which teaches us and helps us evolve in our relationship with the host land and the beings who inhabit it?

Passing on is a matter of solidarity, relay, memory, and transition from one state to another. Our practices are rooted in these different strata of ‘reading’ and their ‘possible embodiment’ into new uses.

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