Annotation as sensibility

- [x] When I make an Annotation it is always drawing over something existing

- [x] Act of drawing over something existing that is my own / borrowed

- [x] Not the same as drawing on blank space

- [x] The base sets the context and frame of mind

- [x] Not the same as mimesis of forms and copying the work

- [x] The annotation works to create engagement by opening an inquiry or internal dialogue, taking a position, making a decision, rationalizing intuition, extracting knowledge

- [x] In the design process regardless of if the annotated consideration was practical or poetic it gives meaning and attaches a value to decision or intent

- [x] It also allows the layering of values enhancing the richness of design intent

- [x] It makes visible spatial sensibilities that often remains intuitive or unseen even to the designer, myself, my team or the student

- [x] Here I would love to show more examples of mood boards which I know can be misused in this age of Pinterest interior designers

- [x] The way i deploy mood boarding, material boarding, visual referencing shifting from open ended atmospheres to commentary, critique and smuggling through annotation.

- [x] This is where annotation makes the implicit explicit very quickly and without disguise. Where the open to imagination aspect is removed and the clarity of intention is bare.

- [x] Confidence building through borrowing / tracing

- [x] Sharpens design intention

- [x] Relates to Rogoffs idea of smuggling

- [ ] At this stage there was quite a lot blind mimesis, visual representations an replication of image

- [x] How did I develop this sensibility? How can others develop this sensibility. How have others developed this sensibility similarly or differently.

- [ ] I also needed to explain those rationals to students as I provide commentary and critique to their work

- [ ] Stuff that I found hard to articulate in words expressed as lines over their work

- [ ] specificity, concise, precise, intentional, intentionality

- [ ] Very often these things affect timeline, budgets, spatial quality, longevity of a project.

- [ ] This is my room that I renovated in 2007 that gave me that sense of urgency confident about what is being built

- [ ] And like many design projects it started with mood boards of how each room looked like and then annotated these mood boards to explain to myself what specifically I liked about each image, highlight the actual spatial conditions and trying to rationalise my intuitive sense of design.

- [ ] Confidence building on reference works, precedent study, case study, mood board

- [ ] Same questions occur as I work with students on their mood boards

- [ ] What am I extracting from each image I have selected?