Mobile drawing methods in landscape research: collaborative drawing in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
Authors
Fox, AliceMacpherson, Hannah
Oli, Nischal
Ranjit, Ashmina
Thapa, Sangeeta
Aggett, Sian
Church, Andrew
Affiliation
University of BrightonBritish Council, Kathmandu
University of Sussex
University of Bedfordshire
Issue Date
2022-06-26Subjects
drawing methodsNepal
non-representational theory
mobile methods
arts-based research
visual methods
critical cartography
Subject Categories::L700 Human and Social Geography
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In this paper, we show how mobile drawing methodologies can bring the dynamic, relational and non-representational qualities of landscape encounters to the foreground. The research paper discusses a mobile drawing project that took place in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. The project entitled ‘Taxi Guff-Gaff’ invited participants to undertake a collaborative drawing and conversational journey. Mobile drawing together on a bumpy taxi journey required artist participants to move together and literally ‘pay attention to the moment at hand’. In so doing it produced imagery that foregrounds the inherent dynamic quality of all our landscape encounters. We propose that mobile drawing offers an immersive way to relate to the urban landscape and each other and can open up spaces of landscape research that centre on speculative forms of thinking, being, drawing and conversation.Citation
Fox A, Macpherson H, Oli N, Ranjit A, Thapa S, Aggett S, Church A (2022) 'Mobile drawing methods in landscape research: collaborative drawing in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal', Landscape Research, (), pp.-.Publisher
Taylor and FrancisJournal
Landscape ResearchAdditional Links
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01426397.2022.2090531Type
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enISSN
0142-6397EISSN
1469-9710Sponsors
The work for this project was supported by funding from the British Council to undertake the drawing in the Taxi Guff-Gaff project, and the Economic and Social Research Council Global Challenges Fund Research, grant number: ES/T008113/1, to undertake follow-up research to establish methodological insights for the work in Nepal on the project Brown Gold Towards Brown Gold?: Reimagining off grid sanitation in rapidly urbanising areas in Asia and Africa.ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/01426397.2022.2090531
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