Illustrating the City

How can illustration investigate, record and intervene in urban environments? Stephanie Black and Luise Vormittag survey a wide array of creative strategies that reveal new insights.

This is a substantive survey article by Black and Vormittag, in the second of four working papers from the 'Colouring In' project. This publication explores the impact illustration currently has in our understanding of urban environments, the possibilities of illustrative strategies to draw out urban histories, reveal city dwellers’ struggles for space and visibility, and present polyvocal narratives that uphold the vitality and richness of our urban environments.

Colouring In is a collaborative research project by Dr Stephanie Black (Kingston School of Art) and Luise Vormittag (Camberwell College of Arts, UAL), through which we are examining the impact of illustration on themes of critical importance to global debates.

• https://www.colouring-in.com/