Noël van Dooren, a Dutch landscape architect, writer and researcher, is currently working on a PhD about ‘Drawing Time’ and his talk will focus on his fascination for drawing. Initially discussing drawing as separate topic from landscape architecture, he will consider topics such as what it means to speak about a section as section, and will suggest that to think about drawing is to think about history, design processes and design cultures. He will address the taxonomy of drawings, the position of specific drawing types like ‘the map’ or ‘the visualization’, and the role of the drawing as piece of art and as representation of reality.

Since his research is also about time, in the second section of his talk, he will ask what exactly is time in landscape architecture and how might it be represented? In a richly illustrated talk, Noël van Dooren, will, in a relaxed and informal manner, offer many diverse topics for discussion, in particular, asking whether we should reconsider contemporary ways of visualizing and shouldn’t we be more aware of time; if so, should we draw it and how?

Noël van Dooren (1967) worked at H+N+ 1992-1997 and as independent landscape architect 1997-2012. His projects are mainly related to water (dike reinforcement; reconstructions of river plains and rainwater catchment areas). He was member of the board of the Dutch professional magazine Blauwe Kamer and he wrote books and articles on landscape architecture. He was head of the landscape architecture department at the Academy of Architecture Amsterdam 2004-2009. The Academy offered him the opportunity to pursue the ‘Drawing Time’ research as a PhD. Erik de Jong (University of Amsterdam) and Udo Weilacher (TU Munich) are supervising the research.