Instagram and the teaching of drawing: the representation of time

Abstract

This research is based on a teaching experience carried out during a full academic year: the use of the social network Instagram as a complement for the teaching of various drawing subjects of the undergraduate degree in Architecture and Technical Architecture at the University of Alicante. Originally designed as a tool and a platform to investigate the problem of the representation of time in drawing, the application for smartphones created in 2010, has served as a connector of the network of competencies and capacities of the different graphic subjects involved. Shelling and explaining the drawings used, the article analyzes the innovative teaching methodology carried out. The starting hypothesis defends that the process of construction of meaning of the drawing is an inseparable part of it and, therefore, must be taken into account during the stage of creation, application or analysis in which, in one way or another, all the subjects involved participate. It ends by relating the graphic results produced by the students in two ways: between the different subjects with each other and, at the same time, with the history of publications on Instagram that guide the aforementioned innovative experience. The conclusions show the importance of the human agents involved in any teaching-learning process as well as the possibilities that the community and interactivity have in it. In addition, it is demostrated the versatility of the digital tools that we have at our disposal and the importance of the concepts that, independent of them, must be considered during a teaching that aspires to excellence.