Waves After Wind Urban Sketching Workshop

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I created and lead an urban sketching workshop for Waves After Wind 不風不平不浪靜 in Aberdeen, Hong Kong. Their team had determined a route in Aberdeen that follows the wind, a path they found by asking residents where in the neighborhood they felt the wind the strongest. As a team, we wanted to experiment with combining sketching along this route so we created a sketching while walking, talking, and touring workshop.

Over two hours with 15 participants, we stopped seven times at different sites to do sketching exercises I designed. The first three are connected to nature and the body—finding the rhythm of the ocean, imagining how the wind looks like as it comes towards you and touches your skin, seeing the wind in the natural environment around us. The second half of the exercises have to do with our urban environment and each other—imagining who the locals are and how they see us, looking at each other’s faces and drawing freely, capturing personalities and postures, finding locals to draw and potentially gift our drawings to.

At the end of the workshop we gathered at an Aberdeen coffee shop for the Waves After Wind exhibition opening, which wrapped up their program. Participants assembled their sketches into a collection, turning an afternoon of practicing observation and movement and imagination into a finished accordion zine.