Day 3, スケッチ、スケッチ Sketch! panel discussion

This day we have panel discussion in an auditorium of Chiba University horticulture department.
First, Maria gave us short talk of her story, how she discover the meanings and use of Urban sketching. Why she start sketching; why she kept sketching after coming to Japan as a student; how she found meaning of sketching in the regional activity; how she found Urban Sketchers/ Urban Sketchers Japan; how she incorporate sketching in her study as well as this event program, things like that.

Then followed by talks by Richard Alomar, Peggy Wong, Mario Linhares, and Professor Isami Kinoshita. The topic is mainly about role and value of sketching, they showed concrete examples through their profession, project, experiences such as workshop, recording heritage, sketch tour, social media sharing, research program, etc.

Then we had Q and A time. Lively discussion continued. One question was “What can we do when to attract people who feel intimidated because they think they are bad at drawing to join sketch activity? ” I liked one of the answers made by Richard “ Then make it rule to sketch faster like three minutes. Then nobody can sketch well ( so no-one feel inferiority)”

This day I was asked to be a help as an interpreter, but the nature of the discussion speed, lack of preparation, I simply failed to meet up the expectation, however, a student of Chiba University, Sofie interpreted instead, so I felt so thankful of her presence!

Meanwhile Maria wrote memo visual record on the black-board simultaneously in Q and A time, then later she made summary for us.




Meanwhile Naoko, an Urban Sketchers Japan blog author made visual record on her sketch book. So well depicted the feel of the moment they are talking.