D[inner]rawing
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workshop at TRACEY Drawing Research Network Conference 11-12thJuly 2019, Loughborough University. A conference aimed to explore the notion of embodied drawing.
Anthi Kosma
- Anthi Kosma holds a PhD (2014 Cum Laude & special honor) and DEA (2008), under the supervision of Javier Seguí de la Riva, in architecture from the School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM) with scholarships from IKY and Triandafyllidis foundation respectively.
- She is currently giving classes at the Department of Architecture in National Technical University of Athens and at University of Thessaly, (Volos).
- The academic year 2017-18 she gave classes at the School of Architecture in Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH), where she got her Bachelor of Architecture (2005).
- Her main research interest is in non-representative drawing as a radical imaginary technique, a configurational ‘therapy’ with the capacity to experiment with oneself, a mute language in general and an exploratory action in the field of architecture specifically.
- She has organized several workshops, named "Imprográfika", on experimental drawing (digital and analogical) and graphic improvisations, in Spain and abroad.
- In recent years she has also organized online courses at the Mexican platform of visual arts, “Taller Multinacional”.
- She worked with “N+10” architects -1rst prize at the competition for 100 social houses in Madrid- (2011-12 and 2016-now), "xza-architects" at the New Cyprus Museum and realized several architectural projects by herself.
- She is a member and co-founder of “Activate Now” and “Old Silk Factory”, a creative collective group and a self-managed cultural center in the city of Sparta.
- She runs "Imprográfika" a blog on narratives about drawing.
- She is also known as “anthokosmos”, a cosmos of blossoms.