Research Through Art

Welcome to The Magic of Drawing IV: Research Through Art

Explore how drawing can revolutionize your research process. The Magic of Drawing IV is designed for researchers, academics, and anyone involved in creative or scientific exploration. This course introduces powerful drawing techniques to assist with theory development, overcoming emotional blocks, and managing research projects with greater clarity and creativity. By integrating visual tools into your research, you’ll enhance both your analytical and creative thinking, taking your research to the next level.

Course Overview

This course is divided into three two hours sessions, each designed to help you integrate drawing into different aspects of your research journey—formulating theory, removing emotional barriers, and facilitating research projects.

• Session 1: Grounded Theory and Drawn Diagrams

  Learn how to use drawing as a tool to develop grounded theory and organize complex research data. In this session, you’ll explore techniques for creating drawn diagrams that visually represent theoretical frameworks and data connections. These visual representations will help you map out your ideas clearly and efficiently, giving you deeper insights into your research subjects.

• Session 2: Working on Removing Emotional Obstacles

  
Research can be mentally and emotionally taxing, leading to creative blocks or burnout. This session focuses on using drawing as a therapeutic tool to address emotional challenges. By visually expressing your emotions and frustrations, you’ll learn how to break down emotional obstacles, allowing your creativity and critical thinking to flow more freely during your research process.

• Session 3: Facilitating Research Projects and Next Steps

  Drawing can also play a key role in project management and long-term research planning. In this session, you’ll learn how to use drawing to visualize research timelines, manage tasks, and map out the next steps in your research journey. This practical approach will help you stay organized, on track, and motivated as you move through the complexities of your research projects.

Why Join The Magic of Drawing IV?

• Visualize Theory Development: Learn how to create drawn diagrams to represent and develop grounded theory in your research.
• Overcome Emotional Barriers: Use drawing to break through emotional blocks that may be hindering your research progress.
• Enhance Project Management: Develop visual strategies to facilitate research planning, timelines, and project management.
• Applicable to All Research Fields: Whether you’re in the sciences, humanities, or creative fields, these drawing techniques can support your research efforts.

Sign Up Today

Join us for The Magic of Drawing IV and learn how to incorporate drawing into your research process to enhance creativity, clarity, and project management. Reserve your spot today and take your research to the next level with the power of visual thinking!

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Dr Unnur Ottarsdottir has worked in a preschool, secondary schools and a high school as a teacher, special education teacher and art therapist. She is a part-time art therapy lecturer at the Iceland University of the Arts and at the continuing education department of the University of Akureyri. She is also a practising researcher at the Reykjavik Academy.

Unnur has practised art therapy in various institutions and in her private practice for 30 years. She runs an art therapy clinic in Iceland, specialising in treatment for children and adults dealing with traumatisation and specific learning difficulties. Her areas of research are art therapy in education for children with specific learning difficulties who have experienced trauma, and art making as a therapeutic and learning approach, including drawing for memorisation and emotional processing.

Unnur has given lectures and written chapters and articles about art therapy and memory drawing which have been published internationally.

Unnur conducted a research study into long-term memory of drawings and words. This is the first time that comparisons between drawn images and written words over such an extended period of time has been studied worldwide.