Rhythms of practice: An evaluation of writings generated from a series of drawing, speaking and writing experiments

This article evaluates some of the ‘Rhythms of Practice’ experiment writings (activities of drawing, speaking and writing) from Ph.D. research, ‘Design leads’, 2012. The research developed from earlier Writing PAD preoccupations with the relation of studio practices to writing practices. The article, informed by my role of participant–observer, proceeds from an evaluation of writing that is absorbed into drawing to a second part that analyses the microelements of writings produced. The latter are experiential, towards the phenomenological or sometimes poetic in nature. The final part brings in the perspective of Iain McGilchrist’s research on the bi-laterality of brain hemispheres.