In this special event as part of our International Women’s Day week of celebrations, architecture and landscape academic, Dr Nicole Porter, represented her observational drawing project Artist-in-residence: drawing during lockdown. This presentation shows an ordinary UK suburban landscape in extraordinary times.

While working from home in Nottingham between March and October 2020, Nicole paused each day to draw the view from the first-floor window of her terraced house, which overlooks the shared garden of a council-owned estate for older people. The resulting drawings are a meditation on place, awareness, nature and community; over 200 drawings reveal the changing weather and seasons, and the activities of neighbours in this residential context. Nicole discusses the process of drawing and identifies key themes of design (windows, gardens, streetscapes), social interaction and isolation, the importance of nature, and making the time to mindfully notice and appreciate them all.

This was one of several events organised by RIBA East Midlands as part of International Women's Day 2021, generously sponsored by Ibstock.

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