i ran a workshop before christmas, not to do with this project but something i am interested in called ‘social mapping’ where you ask people to draw maps of their communities.
The idea is to get personnal perspectives on communities, obviously it is going to be different depending on the types of people i.e. young, old, local, student, ethnic minority, etc
So kind of a social study really but i think it has the potential for a really interesting art project and i am just in the stages of bringing the idea into the work i have been doing with the dialysis patients on my other residency, for which i am also in the process of sorting out a blog for. Although at this rate i’ll not have time for anything other than ‘blogging’.
The workshop i ran was an expressive drawing workshop and ended up being mainly young children to whom it was quite hard to explain my requests, but i think they came up with some really lovely drawings. What was more interesting as an experience i think was getting them to explain what had made them draw what they had drawn.
i called the workshop ‘map your world’ and asked people to draw what they imagined their world to be or what first popped into their heads when thinking of their ‘community’ or ‘world’.
i realised kids whole worlds stem from their homes, no revelation there really’ but a good reminder…
