Using ink, coffee and wine, I sketch people and spaces…

This text focuses on sketching practices in research in these tumultuous times of AI. Sketching for research in architecture and urbanism tends to focus on observing and recording of what is out there. Here we problematize sketching as research and explore a potential of drawing to capture what is in the researcher, in the one who draws, at the very moment of sketching. That builds upon previous investigations of (the importance of) subjectivities in investigations of the urban . When freed from the narrow focus on simple usefulness, sketching can reach beyond representation, explore and communicate thoughts, sensations and feelings. These practices open up heuristic feelings, in the way similar to thinking aloud. In the public realm, such voices are at the very core of what the cities as projections of society on the ground are, or what they could be(come).