Draw It With Others

Draw—it—with—others (DIWO) explores drawing as a free and open source practice. By using drawing as an entry point to think about authorship, circulation, collective work and situated tools, DIWO researches how technology organizes togetherness,and how togetherness affects technology.

In line with its departure point 'Do-It-With-Others', DIWO treasures the idea that we are interconnected and there is always others being involved. Here, we would like to suggest DIWO as a verb. To DIWO is to acknowledge these others: “them” being in the software, in the materials, together in the studio with you, or connected from another part of the world.

Prompt

Performing Pen Plotter

Find a plotter pal
Read the prompt together
Choose who moves the pen (top/down) and who moves the paper (left/right)
Run a test print: try plotting "Hello world"

Collaborative Lettering

Components of the Collabroative lettering interface

Take a moment to observe the constellation of letters on DIWO standing sign
Pick one letter (D-R-A-W-I-T-H-O-E) and draw it on a blank card
Write your name on the back (if you want)
Append your letter drawing to the one on the standing board
Iterate!

Overall picture of the wooden board with lot of different characters. A "W" is a double rainbow upside-down, a t-shirt as a "T", some heavy brush strokes make for an obscure "O", some dashed centerlines on a road form an 'i'...

DIWO collaborative lettering board at the Hackers and Designers summer camp

Someone is comparing the feature of a uppercase 'R' and the picture with a face of a young male proboscid monkey

Prompt

SVG-re-draw

Open the last re-drawn SVG by clicking here
Iterate the drawing by re-positioning and rotating the strokes
(SUGGESTION) Make a simple line drawing for others to re-use

Smartphone Camera Obscura

Two people tracing each others' smartphones under fabric tent

Open your smartphone and browse through your screenshots
Increase the brightness of the screen and place the paper on top
If it is hard to see, consider covering yourself with some fabric (like taking a picture 150 years ago!)
Trace the screen
Once you are done, "send" your screenshot drawing to the other to color it

A person tracing the screen of their smartphone on a thin sheet of paper.

DIWO @ Birdcall
Smartphone Camera Obscura workshop

A hand tapping on a smartphone glowing from below a paper sheet

DIWO @ Some Other Space
Smartphone Camera Obscura workshop

Prompt

Xquisite Branch

Open the last xquisite drawing by clicking here.
Draw something!
Upload it!
Send the link to someone else: they will continue from your drawing!
But wait! There's a catch!!!!! If you send it to just one person, the chain will continue linearly, but send it to more people, then things will start branching in different directions.