Drawing for Everyone. Pedagogical Practices in the Digital Arts Degree: Abstract Thinking, Basic Geometric Forms and Grid Systems

Abstract

Every design project requires a conception based on the project methodology that starts from the sketch as a tool for the configuration of ideas from essential elements of the form such as the line, the circle or the square. All these characteristics are developed through observation and drawing, and help us to define the structure, direction, visual weight, movement or composition and therefore are part of the reticular structure of graphic design and in general of all those disciplines in those who intervened in creative practice. For this reason, this study raises a reflection on the need to establish new pedagogical practices within the university degree studies linked to training in disciplines such as design, communication or advertising. To this end, a journey is made through the new pedagogies that emerged at the end of the 19th century and which were so influential in the training of Vanguard designers and artists and on which the aesthetic bases of De Stijl and Bauhaus are based. they are the beginning of an entire style towards abstraction that marked the change of paradigm towards new approaches in the art and design of the XX and XXI century. This journey is reflected in the analysis of a case study in which learning strategies are implemented, inspired both by the Bauhaus pedagogies and the pedagogical model of Pestalozzi, combining the learning of digital tools with training for the development of the abstract thinking through basic geometric shapes and their application to grid systems.