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Drawing in the round: unsettling representation
16 May 2023 - 16 May 2023
1:00PM - 3:00PM
Room: CB-0015 (Confluence Building)
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free, but requires booking (see link on right hand menu)
Join Dr Sage Brice in this latest event in the Creative Methods Series
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Geography
Drawing in the Round: unsettling representation
Sage Brice
This workshop makes a playful/critical examination of some common assumptions about drawing and its role as research. Noting the long history of drawing as a primary research methodology in a range of disciplines, the workshop invites us to consider how drawing as a mode of enquiry can support current concerns in human geography, prompting a very literal encounter with problems of positionality and embodied, material and spatial relations in the field. Offered as a light provocation, the workshop highlights particular qualities of observational drawing as a process in which thought takes place at the point of encounter between the observer and the observed.
Open to all PGRs and staff across human and physical geography, this workshop will be useful for anyone who is interested in thinking through positionality and embodied relations as they unfold in the research process and explores the ways in which observational drawing can generate new insights into those relations. Sage will provide an overview of the role of drawing in geographical research ranging from landform surveys to atmosphere and affect, before facilitating a practical drawing activity. Materials will be provided; no drawing experience or expertise is required!
This workshop is part of the Human Geography cross-cluster Creative Research Methods Series organised by Danae Kontou, Leah Edwards, Meghan Kelly and Rachel Colls. The series aims to showcase work being done in the department using creative methods and artistic modes of engagement, to situate these within critical geographical debates and to encourage playful experimentation through having a go.