Living Lattice: Urban Sketching in Dubai

LIVING LATTICE Urban Sketches By Manupriam

World Architecture Conference 20-21 April 2018 Dubai United Arab Emirates

CURATED BY Dr, HARPREET SETH

About Urban Sketchers Dubai Urban Sketchers Dubai was founded in January 2015 by Manupriam. Starting with 12 sketchers in a park, currently it has more than 250 members. The group has visited more than 140 locations in Dubai and has posted more than 5000 sketches on their Facebook page.

USD has held three (3) annual exhibitions and has contributed actively to the creative spaces of Sikka Art Festival 2018, 2017 and2016, Dubai Design Week 2017 and 2016, Design Lane Al Serkal Avenue and other prestigious art events in Dubai.

School of Planning and Architecture New Delhi .

Chandigarh College Of Architecture

AAP Cornell Architecture Art and Planning

LIVING LATTICE Living lattice recognizes the most direct perception of a variety of urban spaces and life in Dubai. A perception which encompasses simple and mundane street life to most active and vibrant events across the city.

The city has retained a series of patterns in its fold while keeping a fast pace of growth.

Districts, piazzas, streets, sikkas, atriums, parks and numerous other spaces reflect a huge variety of these patterns visible through the built form, proportions of spaces, surfaces they hold, activities they contain and a sense of time associated with each one of them.

Through Urban Sketching these patterns have been captured in a variety of sections which cover streets, architecture, spaces and people. These form part of the identifiable rhythm and a sense of pattern which is dynamic and growing. These form part of a large living lattice, an active ingredient of Dubai’s vibrant urban sprawl.

The sketches are candid conversations with the city and its people. Each sketch has a sense of location and story.

‘Busy hours in kitchen’ Firoz and his team at Bikes n Bites, Box Park.

21 cm x 30 cm Water marker on paper with Indian ink wash.

‘Intense Focus’ At Yadewi Pottery, Al Quoze.

21 cm x 30 cm

Pen and ink on cold pressed paper

‘Serene Oppulence’ At Dubai Opera Piazza 21 cm x 30 cm Pen and ink on paper with Indian ink wash.

‘Vernacular Delight’ At Madinat Jumeirah

21 cm x 30 cm Permanent marker and ink on cold pressed paper

‘Rustic Modernity’ At Dubai wharf, Quay 3 21 cm x 30 cm

Pen and ink on paper

‘From grime we rise’ At Moto Café, Al Quoze.

21 cm x 30 cm

Pen and ink on cold pressed paper

‘Leading to light’ At Jam Jar, Al Serkal Avenue.

21 cm x 30 cm Water brush and ink on paper with Indian ink wash.

‘Fresh to table-1’ At New Hamriya fish market.

21 cm x 30 cm Pen and ink on paper with coffee wash.

‘Fresh to table-2’ At New Hamriya fish market.

21 cm x 30 cm Pen and ink on paper with coffee wash.

‘Reel Anxiety’ At VOX Burjuman 21 cm x 30 cm Pen and ink on paper with Indian ink wash.

‘Court Comforts’ At Madinat Jumeirah 21 cm x 30 cm Diluted Indian ink on cold pressed paper.

‘Where is the gap’ from Marriott Bridge, Deira 21 cm x 30 cm Grey wash pen and ink on paper

‘Sinuous Delight’ from Radisson Deira, Up on the 10th.

21 cm x 30 cm Brush pen and ink on paper.

‘Old benchmark’ at the Clock Tower, Deira

21 cm x 30 cm Brush Pen and ink on paper .

‘Can I borrow your sail’ At Dubai wharf, Quay 3 21 cm x 30 cm Pen and ink on cold pressed paper

www.facebook.com/urbansketchersdubai/ Urban Sketchers Manifesto The Urban Sketchers Manifesto aims to define what urban sketching is all about.

But it's not a binding set of rules. The basic idea behind these 8 points is to provide a unifying vision for the global urban sketching community. We encourage diversity in subject matter, style and technique.

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We draw on location, indoors or out, capturing what we see from direct observation.

Our drawings tell the story of our surroundings, the places we live and where we travel.

Our drawings are a record of time and place.

We are truthful to the scenes we witness.

We use any kind of media and cherish our individual styles.

We support each other and draw together.

We share our drawings online.

We show the world, one drawing at a time.

#urbansketchersdubai

urbansketchersdubai@gmail.com

Urban Sketchers Dubai meet every Friday 3-5 pm November – April 4-6 pm May – October All sketching locations are posted on Facebook page.

No membership fees. Sketch with the group to be a member