Lines of Inquiry

Multidisciplinary Methodologies in Drawing and Education

Tessa Berg, Tracey Bowen

• Publisher: Intellect Books
• Year: 2026
• Print ISBN:
  9781835952603
  9781835952597
• eBook ISBN:
  9781835952610
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art Techniques

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• 1. Drawing Multidisciplinary Lines of Inquiry Through Global Conversations
• 2. Drawing as an Active Learning Pedagogical Tool to Understand Visual Plagiarism
• 3. Conversational Drawing: The Landscape Architecture Project
• 4. Agenda 2030 for a Sustainable Future Visualized Through Comic Strips
• 5. Valuing Drawing as Data and Inquiry: Drawings and Rich Pictures Alongside Poetry and Storytelling Within an Inventive Methodology
• 6. ‘When Your Feet Never Touch the Ground’: Drawing as an Encounter with the Natural Environment
• 7. Drawing as a Bodily Experience
• 8. From Home to School: Using Children's Drawings to Explore Language and Schooling Experiences in a Bilingual Setting
• 9. A Generative Drawing Methodology: The Design, Development, and Protocol to Explore Perceptions of Self-Ageing
• 10. Interwoven Lines of Violence and Care: Exercises in Drawing, Reflection, and Telling Stories
• 11. Drawing as a Sentimental Writing
• 12. ‘Blubild’ Methodology: Drawing Out Specific Embodiments
• Notes on Contributors
• Back Cover