C-URL Kits

How do we teach digital drawing for urbanists? The key issue for digital drawing in urbanism is that the operations needed to execute particular drawings means using a variety of software to produce our images. Teaching digital drawing for urbanists is not about achieving great depth of technical ability in a series of particular software but rather about understanding the basics of tools within software that allow us to move between them. This series is centered around the pedagogy of workflow.

We have to main tutorial video types

1. Kits are long format project based videos that will use more than one program. These are intended to demonstrate intended workflow and how to work between different programs

2. Techniques are short format skill based videos that will demonstrate one particular tool/idea/method in one program. These are intended to “skill-up” students in areas they might be lacking. 

K-1A

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Basic Asset Mapping

Basic Asset Mapping looks at using ArcGIS to isolate buildings by land-use zones to style them in Adobe Illustrator.

K-2A

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Global Flight Mapping

Global Flight Mapping uses Excel and ArcGIS to take open-source data and prep linework for styling in Photoshop.

T-2A

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Sketching Roads

Record History Method and Grasshopper Method to sketch out roads from centre-lines.