Lines of Inquiry
Multidisciplinary Methodologies in Drawing and Education
Will be published approx. on 3. August 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
258 pages
978-1-83595-260-3 (ISBN)
Description
Lines of Inquiry: Multi-disciplinary Methodologies in Drawing and Education is a collection of essays written by researchers, scholars, and artists from nine countries around the world.
The multi-disciplinary contributors include teachers, artists, architects, psychotherapists, museum educators and curators who bring their distinct positions and experiences of using drawing in collaboration with others, in classrooms, in the community, in private practice, and as researchers interpreting and analyzing the experiences of others.The collection is organized in a way that takes the reader through a journey of what drawing is and can be; whether that is through a mapping of one's daily route, a marking of territory, an expression of an experience, a problem-solving equation of arrows and lines, a comic, or a concept of imagined lines that demarcate power. Some contributions speak to the embodiment that drawing allows, some to learning and knowledge construction, and some to an age-old way of communicating.
The international roster of contributors provides suggestions for developing new ways of knowing, for developing empathy toward things that may lie outside our own experiences, and for seeing alternative perspectives through drawing.
The multi-disciplinary contributors include teachers, artists, architects, psychotherapists, museum educators and curators who bring their distinct positions and experiences of using drawing in collaboration with others, in classrooms, in the community, in private practice, and as researchers interpreting and analyzing the experiences of others.The collection is organized in a way that takes the reader through a journey of what drawing is and can be; whether that is through a mapping of one's daily route, a marking of territory, an expression of an experience, a problem-solving equation of arrows and lines, a comic, or a concept of imagined lines that demarcate power. Some contributions speak to the embodiment that drawing allows, some to learning and knowledge construction, and some to an age-old way of communicating.
The international roster of contributors provides suggestions for developing new ways of knowing, for developing empathy toward things that may lie outside our own experiences, and for seeing alternative perspectives through drawing.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Intellect
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
16 Halftones, color; 91 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
400 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83595-260-3 (9781835952603)
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Persons
Tracey Bowen is a Professor, Teaching Stream Emerita in the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. She is also a mixed media artist. Her research focuses on visual rhetoric, visual metaphor, and drawing as a research methodology and has been published in Visual Communication, Metaphor and Symbol, Studies in Art Education, Studies in Higher Education and Higher Education Research and Development.
Dr. Tessa Berg is an Associate Professor at Heriot Watt University in Scotland within the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences. Her research interests are in information systems and socio-technical analysis with specific interest in using pictures and iconography to identify complex systems of human understanding. Dr Berg has a keen interest in collaborative methods of engagement and has helped pioneer a number of modern approaches to participatory methodologies such as Rich Picture analysis. Dr Berg has been involved in research and development projects across Europe, the Mediterranean, Africa and Asia.
Dr. Tessa Berg is an Associate Professor at Heriot Watt University in Scotland within the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences. Her research interests are in information systems and socio-technical analysis with specific interest in using pictures and iconography to identify complex systems of human understanding. Dr Berg has a keen interest in collaborative methods of engagement and has helped pioneer a number of modern approaches to participatory methodologies such as Rich Picture analysis. Dr Berg has been involved in research and development projects across Europe, the Mediterranean, Africa and Asia.
Content
List of Figures
Drawing Multi-disciplinary Lines of Inquiry through Global Conversations
Tracey Bowen and Tessa Berg
Drawing as an Active Learning Pedagogical Tool to Understand Visual Plagiarism
Lisa Winstanley and Jesse John Thompson
Conversational Drawing: The Landscape Architecture Project
Nicole Valois
Agenda 2030 for a Sustainable Future Visualized through Cartoon Strips
Margaretha Haggstrom and Kerstin Ahlberg
Valuing Drawing as Data and Inquiry: Drawings and Rich Pictures Alongside Poetry and Storytelling within an Inventive Methodology
Margaret Wadsley
When Your Feet Never Touch the Ground: Drawing as a Tool to Investigate Perspectives on Encounters with the Natural Environment
Joan Marie Kelly
Drawing as a Bodily Experience
Anna Carin Hedberg and Rikke Lundgreen
From Home to School: Using Children's Drawings to Explore Language and Schooling Experiences in a Bilingual Setting
Maretta Sidiropoulou, Sofia Vlahou, and Trifaini Sidiropoulou-Kanellou
A Generative Drawing Methodology: The Design, Development and Protocol to Explore Self-Aging
Curie Scott
Interwoven Lines of Violence and Care: Exercises in Drawing, Reflection, and Telling Stories
Madison Lindsay
Drawing as a Sentimental Writing
Anthi Kosma
Blubilds: Drawing out Specific Embodiments
Joanna Leah
Notes on Contributors
Drawing Multi-disciplinary Lines of Inquiry through Global Conversations
Tracey Bowen and Tessa Berg
Drawing as an Active Learning Pedagogical Tool to Understand Visual Plagiarism
Lisa Winstanley and Jesse John Thompson
Conversational Drawing: The Landscape Architecture Project
Nicole Valois
Agenda 2030 for a Sustainable Future Visualized through Cartoon Strips
Margaretha Haggstrom and Kerstin Ahlberg
Valuing Drawing as Data and Inquiry: Drawings and Rich Pictures Alongside Poetry and Storytelling within an Inventive Methodology
Margaret Wadsley
When Your Feet Never Touch the Ground: Drawing as a Tool to Investigate Perspectives on Encounters with the Natural Environment
Joan Marie Kelly
Drawing as a Bodily Experience
Anna Carin Hedberg and Rikke Lundgreen
From Home to School: Using Children's Drawings to Explore Language and Schooling Experiences in a Bilingual Setting
Maretta Sidiropoulou, Sofia Vlahou, and Trifaini Sidiropoulou-Kanellou
A Generative Drawing Methodology: The Design, Development and Protocol to Explore Self-Aging
Curie Scott
Interwoven Lines of Violence and Care: Exercises in Drawing, Reflection, and Telling Stories
Madison Lindsay
Drawing as a Sentimental Writing
Anthi Kosma
Blubilds: Drawing out Specific Embodiments
Joanna Leah
Notes on Contributors