Drawing Water: (a)drift on the Shannon

This workshop offers a guided walk and documentary fieldwork exercise in response to the cultural, political and socio economic landscape of the River Shannon, through expanded drawing methods. Moving between the two host venues of Limerick School of Art and Design and the University of Limerick via the river, we will explore, and extend, drawing approaches as tools for the discovery and communication of place in design practice. The workshop focuses on the development of experimental approaches to drawing by merging methods from disciplinary fields and exploring relationships between scientific and experiential modes of measurement. Using the psychogeographic drift as the approach, we interpret drawing as a knowledge-seeking process, putting forward Serra’s Verb List as a practical and discursive starting point to consider the function of drawing beyond its traditional status of artefact, asking: How do we draw in, on, with, or through the landscape? How can the processes and outputs of expanded drawing practice catalyse change by enabling new understanding and knowledge in collective place-based design research? Visual material generated throughout the day will be captured through physical and digital data to create a graphic representation of the experience, resulting in a visual/textual/oral cross section of the River Shannon