slwcpp2foptwdl

slwcpp2foptwdl stands for still life with cobbled polysituated patchwork 2 finding our paths toward wordy dreamy landscapes...

Workshop description

For this Plotter Station workshop, OSP invites you on a griddy and tortuous adventure of making collective pen-plotted poster using their DIY tool named Cobbled Paths. Cobbled Paths is a web interface that brings multiple tools together to allow experimental and direct collaboration on pen-plotted drawings through the making of Ascii art on etherpads.

At d*signweek, we will use Cobbled Paths to make:

• point-of-view drawings from a still life, a first mode of collaborative drawing with different people looks differently at the same thing then all those interpretations are joined together into a collective pen-plotted poster (polysituated patchwork hehe)
• we add FIGlet into the process, starting from everyone saying their "word of today" - something they heard and staid with them. We draw them with figlet on a collective etherpad and then have to come with a landscape that melt them together, join them, draw links in between them. This is another mode of collaboration where everything happens at the same time in the same canvas and requiere more shared protocols and less individual control over the result (dreamy landscape hihi)

Cobbled Paths

The first step is in Ascii art fashion, to draw shapes and lines using Ascii characters such as ( ) / \ | ' - . _ = + on etherpads. An SVG vector interpretation of the shapes and lines is rendered in a side view, that can later be translated to HPGL to draw them with a pen plotter using normal pens.

It makes a way from the blocky discontinuity of Ascii drawings, to the smoothness of bezier curves, to an analogic pen-plotter interpretation.

Like cobbled paths, none of these technologies are new, and we've been walking on them for years. Like cobbled paths, it is a reminder of the permeability between the discrete and the continuous; how regular stones can form tortuous paths.

More info

Registration Link: https://umfrage.servus.at/index.php/639133

D*sign week program on their Wiki: https://dsignweek.servus.at/index.php?title=Programme