Drawing Fields installations alter urban spaces with full-scale, site-specific drawings. The project provisionally transforms existing urban landscapes into laboratories for civic gathering and collective self-organization. These temporary drawings can be used to rapidly prototype new forms of urban commons through bottom-up interventions rather than top-down planning. For example, Drawing Fields can be used to activate civic space, remap existing urban boundaries or reprogram large territories.

It is our intention to stage Drawing Fields in a diverse range of urban contexts. Of particular interest are the dynamics of public gathering. This work is part of a growing body of research reconsidering notions of new public commons in contemporary landscapes.

Drawing Fields operates at a grand scale, but is fleeting and temporal. The project is responsive to the ecological precarity of our volatile present. Each drawing field is water-soluble, non-toxic and disappears within weeks.