GradCAM PhD candidate, Gráinne Coughlan will present her paper “Speculative Drawing in From Different Worlds (1987)” at the South Eastern College Art Conference, Birmingham, Alabama this October.  Gráinne will be part of a panel exploring the relationships between socially engaged art and drawing. Her paper will examine how British artists Stephen Willats used diagrammatic drawings as “speculative modelling tools” to propose and generate new social action in his project From Different Worlds, commissioned by Leeds Art Gallery in 1987. The paper develops Gráinne’s ongoing research interest in the organisation of socially engaged art, information visualisation and systems aesthetics.