Drawing

In recent years, the graphic image and the practices by which it is produced and performed have been playing a growing role in cultural geography's creative (re)turn. Geographers are increasingly experimenting with graphic creative practices, including observational drawing, scribing, graphic recording, and comics, not just to communicate research among wider audiences but also to carry it out. This chapter highlights the transdisciplinary dialogues that inform ‘graphic geographies’ and enter the field from the auto-ethnographic perspective of an illustrator-geographer. In the first part of the chapter, the focus is on the methods and theories that contributed to the rise of geographic experimentation in cultural geography. In the second part, drawing is discussed as a practice for ‘graphical’ spatial research. The chapter highlights the potentialities and limits of drawing as a research practice and sketches a future agenda for conducting graphic research in cultural geography. Finally, it includes two original comic-pages that aim to sustain, inform, and stimulate theoretical and methodological reasoning.