Emotional Laboratory: Drawing and Creative Experience as a Collective Visual Narrative

This communication focuses on answering three questions: What do we mean by emotional, creative expression? How to learn to research from visual storytelling? How to do it collectively? We respond to these issues through the analysis of the pedagogical experience entitled Emotional Laboratory. We have asked architecture apprentices to turn an investigation into a visual narration. They have made it in teams and use drawings and other free experiences as creative tools. Students need to understand reality as a human construction that they work. Apprentices discover and communicate the meanings of that reality, and both, in turn, interact through their mutual understanding. They discover the collective intelligence in this reciprocal work and their co-workers. As they must reveal their graphic group research, presenting the process repeats every week, they develop their public oratory and increase their critical capacity. Emotional Laboratory brings every apprentice develops and shares the ideas around a topic visually raised in the course so that they are validated, rejected, or combined by the rest of the group. In addition to the visual experience, the apprentice begins in collaborative work. This cooperative learning takes place among people coming from different contexts, so the members of every team feedback and generate a coherent and shared visual narration