The next stage of my project was to engage with an audience in a meaningful way. I did this by creating a set of postcards that I encouraged people to draw on, thus creating their own diagrams.
The cards had fragments of diagrammatic language detailed on them, but I had removed the illustrated figure itself. I was interested in how these diagrammatic fragments could guide the act of diagramming and gesture.
I specifically chose diagrams about mark-making, inscription or writing to play on this idea of gesturing, so that the resulting interactions became both diagrams and attempts at following a diagrammatic language.
In doing this, and allowing the results to circulate outside freely, the diagram becomes a networked, democratic figure. The learning is experienced in the act of decoding the diagrammatic language, rather than following a pre-defined set of information.
Below are the cards as I printed them, and during the act of inscription.
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