Dialectograms

Abstract

‘Invented’ by artist and researcher Mitch Miller, ‘dialectograms’ are detailed, intricate drawings of place. Made mostly in Miller’s home city of Glasgow, they are drawn with and through close collaboration with local communities of interest. A process as much as a product, the ‘dialectogram’ borrows liberally from the disciplines of cartography, oral history, architecture and sociology, is articulated through visual disciplines such as illustration and sequential art and informed by writers such as Judith Okely, Michel de Certeau and Tim Ingold. In a decade of experimentation and testing of the limits of drawing, mapping and participatory practice the ‘dialectogram’—originally the signature piece of one artist has since developed into a methodology that has itself, been (liberally) borrowed by many others.

Keywords:

• participatory practice
• maps
• illustration
• Glasgow
• visual art

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Mitch Miller

Mitch Miller is an artist who lives and works in Glasgow. He lectures regularly at Glasgow School of Art and the University of Glasgow. Email: [email protected]