#concept I aim to understand drawing in the same way it is described in *A Thousand Plateaus*: In *A Thousand Plateaus*, to draw is an act of creation. What is drawn (...) does not preexist the act of drawing. The French word *tracer* captures this better: It has all the graphic connotations of 'to draw' in English, but can also mean to blaze a trail or open a road. "To trace" (*décalquer*) on the other hand is to copy something from a model. (B. Massumi, Notes on the Translation) Paul Klee's *"a line is a dot that went for a walk"* captures this perfectly. Drawing is the main activity of [[design]]. Drawing has changed through history and now we would talk about [[Simulation]] as the latest historical version, although this becomes really complex due to the technical framing that is in operation. It is arguably still the same idea - an act of understanding / putting forth / projecting through visual means. Leonardo's Flood drawings as an example: a drawing as means of evolving/understanding/designing, drawing into being, a becoming. It is a perfect instance of [[Worldmaking]] as it creates and makes legible, thus enabling a new reality to emerge. It is an act of resolving [[legibility]], a precise site of entanglement between the author as [[Mind]] and the [[World]]. ![[Leonardo_Flood_P13_3a_Windsor_12378.jpg]]