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EthnoGraphics Pilots: 'The Art of Inquiry'

Sketchbook page scan with a drawing of a couple doing Tai Chi in the park on top and two kids playing on a cut trunk of a tree. Yellow and green colours backgrounds, grey ink outlines. Comic sketch style, essential silhouttes
2023 © Alessandra Fasoli

Ethnographic Sketching: exploring urban sketching as a research method

Drawings and sketches realised within the 3-days training 'Visual Ethnography' at Kingston University. The second day of the training we were asked to apply the visual ethnography techniques we were planning to use in our own study. Sketches where taken in a public park in Totnes, UK, as a way to explore urban sketching from an ethnographic perspective.

Double spread squared sketchbook with a sketch of a river landscape in summertime. From left to right: a sailboat, trees with green and purple canopy, distant buildings and a stone bridge.
Alessandra Fasoli, 2023. Watercolour on paper. Totnes island on the river Dart.
Double spread squared sketchbook with sketches of people in a park. From left to right: couple seated on the grass chatting, a child playing with a dog, a woman reading on a bench, a seagull, a man seated on the grass looking at the river on the right. In the background the silhouette of a man with a backpack walking under a stone bridge.
Alessandra Fasoli, 2023. Watercolour on paper. People in the park, Totnes Island.
Double spread squared sketchbook with sketches of random people in a park. From left to right: two women seated on the grass chatting, a man lying on the grass reading a book, a group of three teenagers seated in circle each one looking at their mobile phones, a man and a woman seated under a tree with a foldable bike and a dog
Alessandra Fasoli, 2023. Graphite and Watercolour on paper. Random people in the park, Totnes Island.
Sketchbook page scan with a drawing of a couple doing Tai Chi in the park on top and two kids playing on a cut trunk of a tree. Yellow and green colours backgrounds, grey ink outlines. Comic sketch style, essential silhouttes
Alessandra Fasoli, 2023. Graphite and Watercolour on paper. Tai Chi and Parkour in the park, Totnes Island.

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