Drawing, Well-being and the Exploration of Everyday Place by ... - 9781789388206

Drawing, Well-being and the Exploration of Everyday Place228 Sketches of Clifton Street\nAuthor(s): Nicole Porter\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Intellect, United Kingdom\nImprint: Intellect Books\nISBN-13: 9781789388206, 978-1789388206\nSynopsis\nOver 200observational drawings created every dayfrom the same window reveal life in an ordinary Englishstreet in extraordinary times. \n\nThis visualrecord and accompanying prose is aunique meditation on place, nature,community, time and mental well-[url] this qualitative work we gaininsight into the individual and collectiveexperience and place-specific impacts ofthe pandemic, as opposed to thequantitative statistics of mortality andinfection rates that characterise dailymedia soundbites and scientific discoursesurrounding lockdown. \n\nFive themes arecentral to the drawings, highlighting theenvironmental and social factorsinfluencing daily life, and how these canbe perceived and recorded viaobservational drawing: framing spaceforegrounds t.