Drawing Machines
School pupils convert movement into lines
Pull, push or turn? Year-six pupils at the secondary school Kreuzberge in Dessau-Roßlau developed drawing instruments enabling an experience of the interplay of movement and line. From the first draft to the finished object, they challenged themselves in a design process over the course of four project days.
Paul Klee and the line
Following Paul Klee's idea of the line as a trace of movement, the pupils and product designer Marion Münzberg examined the translation of physical movements into drawings. They used the rapid movement of elongated drawing utensils to produce rugged, choppy lines and a walk across the classroom became a sweeping chalk track on the blackboard. Building on this, everyone developed their sketches. How should the drawing machines be moved? What would be necessary to do this? And how could the machines leave traces? Many questions were raised and solved in between drawing sketches, building models, and making material lists. Marion Münzberg was at the pupils' side with good advice and expert knowledge. The drawing machines were realized during a project day at the Bauhaus.
