Reading the room
Setting expectations when receiving drawings from other disciplines
The professional world requires several types of expertise to collaborate on projects. Whether for consultants or contractors, the mandate of each discipline approaches problems with their own unique techniques and priorities. To ensure more frictionless collaboration, professionals should invest time gaining an understanding of their colleagues representation strategies.
Building alliances
A successful project or career is built upon mutual respect and understanding between professionals. Building trust with other professionals can start with learning their discipline and ending with more work opportunities down the road. Magazines, conferences and mixers are all great ways to build repertoire, but ultimately understanding how ideas are visualized and learning how to respond to their decisions enables more seamless workflow. Learning what are those particularities can prepare for each individual discipline to plan and act with foresight for the project’s success.
Digging up archives
There are plenty of professional drawings circulating on the internet. Studying line work and annotations can bring forward quite a bit how different professionals represent their ideas. Moreover, project documentation and review are available to learn about how each discipline measures the success of a project. The v
Completed projects
The finished product can speak volumes about a discipline as well. Public reactions are in a way a neutral ground in which disciplines are measured. Instead of seeing oneself form the lens for colleagues, the public typically responds with their own vernacular and instincts that is more raw.