PhD Scholarship: Drawing as Placemaking
PhD Scholarship Proposal - Drawing as Placemaking: Environment, History, and Identity
This research explores the relationship between expanded drawing practices and a relationship with place as an environment, history, and identity.
The School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Huddersfield are pleased to announce a PhD studentship in relation to this subject. This research will consider a range of contemporary drawing practices which engage with historical sites of narrative, with real and imagined places, and with drawing and the body as places of making. The student will be interested in how drawings and drawing processes can examine and articulate our relationships to placemaking, which may engage in concepts of home, historical and memorial sites, personal histories, and imagined and actual places, expanding upon the complexities of the relationship between drawing and a particular position, point, area in space, location, or home.
This project will be supervised by Dr Simon Woolham, who specialises in practice, based around expanded notions of drawing and relationships to placemaking. He works with methodologies such as archaeological-like drawing processes, performance and song-making, drawing out histories and relationships to place. You will be supported in this PhD with travel and material costs.
This project will run through the Centre for Cultural Ecologies in Art, Design and Architecture.
See more of Simon Woolham’s work.
This project offers a VC fee-waiver with an annual £3000 bursary for 3 years and is open to home candidates.
For further information, email: S.Woolham@hud.ac.uk
To apply:
Closing date:
07 June 2024
Please indicate clearly on the online application form that you are applying for the PhD Scholarship - Drawing as Placemaking: Environment, History, and Identity