Drawing and Ethnography

The process of visual recreation from memory or observation has been a part of our sense-making from a very young age. Drawing is one of the first things many of us learned how to do, even before forming full sentences.

How does the practice of drawing mingle with our practices as researchers? Kuschiner (2016,105) says, "Both anthropology and drawing are ways of seeing and also ways of knowing the world. Placing these two universes in dialogue helps shed light on some of the important issues faced by anthropological practice today."

During our workshop, we will be doing various exercises and get a chance to reflect and share back on our experience with the guidance of the following questions:

• What are some ethnographic insights in paying attention to the technique of drawing as a practice?
• What is a structure, what is a detail?
• What is in the background and foreground of a scene or encounter?
• How can these distinctions inform our observation, representation and research?

This is an event hosted by the Visual Methods Studio, a working group sponsored by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture.

Participants are encouraged to mask for the duration of the workshop.