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Guest Talk: Tom Robertshaw, Drawing complex structures

5 Oct 2021

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Tue, 05 Oct
18:30 – 20:00

Cost of entry

£10

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Eye to Pencil Drawing Studio

London
England, United Kingdom

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  • 19, 38, 341, 63
  • Angel, Farringdon
  • Farringdon, Kings Cross
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As a structural engineer, Tom Robertshaw spends his days exploring how creative structures can be made real. His talk will place us in the mindset of an engineer, as he discusses how freehand drawing can be used in different ways at different stages of a design process.

About

The point where conversations between engineers, architects and builders meet and how drawing plays a part in thinking through ideas and communicating them will be the starting point of the talk. Tom Robertshaw will give us an insight into engineers' approaches to problem solving and how drawing can crystallise ideas, alongside using our mind's eye.

Biography

As a director of GL&SS, a leading engineering consultancy, Tom Robertshaw spends his days exploring how creative structures can be made real. Among other things Tom will discuss the difference between drawing to problem solve and drawing to communicate, at different stages of a design process.

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