A Sea of Sketches: a Conversation through Real-Time Sketching
Elvia Vasconcelos, Mafalda Gamboa · 2025
Conversations can take many forms: verbal exchanges, letters, gifts, voice notes, and even drawing together. In this demonstration, we propose creating a space for conversation through real time sketching and a playful exchange with the Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) community. Using our resonating research practices and ourselves as the artefacts to be demonstrated — we open up for different forms of prompting in order to collaboratively create a sea of sketches. This performance combines physical and digital sketching, responding to a selection of audio, text and visual materials around the theme of water. Through our broad and somewhat provocative interpretation of demonstration, we challenge the traditional understanding of conversations and visual practices in interaction design, expanding this form of knowledge towards the ephemeral format of the demo.