Drawing as a Method
How can the act of drawing be deployed as a method for generating knowledge?
OM Ungers writes in “City Metaphors” (1982):
“A model is a structure, a pattern, along the line of which something is shaped…To make a model is to find coherence…to visualize the complexity of appearances in a more ordered way.”
I see drawing as an equivalent tool to making a model. A drawing is also “a structure, a pattern, along the line of which something is shaped.” To draw is to find coherence and create order.
Drawing is a powerful tool that can be used to visualize environmental policies, societal customs, and ecological relationships. As a method, drawing can frame questions and encourage new connections in trying to make sense of initial musings.
What follows in this section are a few examples of my own explorations of being intentional in my work, seeing drawing as a method, and trying to visualize complexity in a way that tells a story.
