Campaign for Drawing
7 Gentleman's Row
Enfield, Middlesex
Greater London
EN2 6PT
England
Website
Telephone
020 8351 1719
The Campaign for Drawing has one aim: to get everyone drawing! Why? Drawing helps us to think, invent and communicate.
Every October over 1000 UK venues host The Big Draw, celebrating drawing as a public activity as well as a private passion. This programme of events spanning the arts and sciences, demonstrates that drawing is the perfect medium for learning, observation, self-expression and fun.
Big Draw Day 2009 is 10 October, but events marking our 10th birthday will take place throughout the month, with thousands of people of all ages and abilities invited to participate.
Venue Type:
Campaign or initiative
Mon-Fri 9.00-17.30
Art Express
Chapters on drawing in a series of six books and CD ROMs for primary teachers (Years 1-6) focus on learning through drawing in relation to people, places, buildings, nature and objects.
Creator
- Chapters on drawing in ART EXPRESS Eileen Adams; series editor Julia Stanton.
Publisher
- A&C Black Publishers Ltd; 2009.
How to obtain
ISBN 978 0 7136 8483 1; ISBN 978 0 7136 8483 4; ISBN 978 0 7136 8482 7;
ISBN 978 0 7136 8481 0. ISBN 978 0 7136 8480 3; ISBN 978 0 7136 8479 7;
Drawing Attractions
A pack of four books and DVD, developed from a programme of drawing on heritage sites.
Creator
- Eileen Adams
Publisher
- The Campaign for Drawing; 2006
How to obtain
The pack can be purchased from The Campaign for Drawing at £30 (inc. p&p) emma@campaignfordrawing.org
Lasting Impressions
Continuity and Change at Eveline Lowe Primary School (2007), plus DVD in collaboration with Charles Mapleston, Malachite Films. The philosophy and design of Eveline Lowe School 1967-2007, a book for parents and children.
Creator
- Eileen Adams
Publisher
- Eveline Lowe School
My Square Mile
http://dcfw.org/education/mysquaremile
A book and CD of work by primary school pupils working with teachers and artists. Their work explores children’s perceptions of the Welsh townscape. The CD has over 500 images of townscape, children’s work and children at work.
Creator
- Eileen Adams
Publisher
- Design Commission for Wales; 2007
How to obtain
Available as a book and CD from Design Commission for Wales, 4th Floor, Building Two, Caspian Point, Caspian Way, Cardiff Bay, CF10 4DQ. Also available to download as a pdf.
Shaping Places
http://www.architecturecentre.org/documents/publications/shaping_places.pdf
Evaluation of a programme in primary and secondary schools in Kent and Solent areas to engage young people in regeneration.
Creator
- Eileen Adams
Publisher
- The Kent Architecture Centre; 2006
How to obtain
ISBN 1 901509 71 0; also available as a pdf.
21st Century Schools
Chapter 3 The need for change and Chapter 6 Lessons for future learning environments; Building Futures series. These include prompts for the reader to question the purposes and functions of schools as learning environments in the 21st century and to consider the influences that are prompting change.
Creator
- Contributions by Eileen Adams
Publisher
- CABE; 2004
How to obtain
See www.cabe.org.uk/publications
AESOP: Arts, Education, Schools, Organisations, Partnerships
Conference report on inter-professional collaboration in education in Southwark.
Creator
- Eileen Adams
Publisher
- South Bank University; (2000)
Art and the Built Environment: A Teacher's Approach
Explanations of townscape and study methods; case studies work in secondary schools; recommendations for development. Seminal publication.
Creator
- Eileen Adams and Colin Ward
Publisher
- Longman; 1982
Art, Community and Environment: Education Perspectives
Chapters on Art and Design Education and the Built Environment; Connections between Public Art and Art and Design Education in Schools; Art and Design Education: A Programme for Teacher Education.
These chapters focus on the built environment as a setting, a focus and a subject for study, emphasising the importance of design awareness, critical study and design activity.
Creator
- Eileen Adams (pp 125-174), eds Coutts G. and Jokela T.
Publisher
- Intellect, Bristol; 2008
How to obtain
ISBN 978-1-84150-257-1
Back to Basics: Aesthetic Experience
Back to Basics: Aesthetic Experience, in Children’s Environments Quarterly, Vol 8:2. (1991), pp19-29.
This paper explores the importance of sensory experience as a basis for learning and teaching and considers the importance of the environment as an educational resource.
Creator
- Eileen Adams
Publisher
- Chapman Hall
Breaking Boundaries
Evaluation of a programme in secondary schools in Kent, where students and teachers worked with artists and architects to explore environmental issues.
Creator
- Eileen Adams
Publisher
- Kent Architecture Centre; 2002
How to obtain
ISBN 1 901509 60 5
Bulletin of Environmental Education
Art and the Built Environment issues 68, 72, 73, 78, 88/89, 96, 98, 102; 1976-1979.
The Bulletin of Environmental Education, edited by Colin ward and published by the Town and Country Planning Association, was a seminal influence on environmental education in the UK and abroad.
Creator
- Eileen Adams
Publisher
- Town and Country Planning Association, London.
Children, Environment and Education
Children, Environment and Education: Personal Views of Urban Environmental Education in Britain in Children’s Environments Vol 9:1 (1991), pp 49-67.
Thinking that underpinned built environment education in the UK in 1970s and 1980s.
Creator
- Adams, E., Bishop, J. and Kean J.
Publisher
- Chapman Hall
Cultural Trends, 32
Built environment education in ‘Education Provision in the Subsidised Cultural Sector’ in Cultural Trends, 32, focuses on the efforts of organisations and agencies outside the formal sector to support built environment education for young people in and out of school.
Creator
- Eileen Adams (Chapter 1, pp 86-97), ed. Sara Selwood
Publisher
- Policy Studies Institute, London; 1998
How to obtain
ISBN 0-85374-765-2
Educated About Public Art
This book clarifies ideas underpinning education in relation to public art, with helpful strategies and examples.
Creator
- Eileen Adams
Publisher
- Commissions East; 2001
How to obtain
ISBN 0-9541447-0-8
Front Door News and ABE News
Front Door News (1975) and ABE News (1976): broadsheets on built environment education projects in schools.
The Front Door and Art and the Built Environment projects were seminal influences on involving art and design teachers in built environmental education, focusing on aesthetic and design matters, and developing strategies to develop design awareness and critical skills.
Creator
- Eileen Adams
Publisher
- The Greater London Council
Getting Out There...
http://www.cabe.org.uk/publications
Art and design local safari guide; a teacher’s guide to using the local built environment at Key Stages 3 and 4. Projects to encourage young people to observe, understand and interpret their surroundings, and to communicate their ideas and dealings about the local environment.
Creator
- Eileen Adams
Publisher
- Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment; 2006
How to obtain
ISBN 1-84633-008-4
International Action Research: A Casebook for Educational Reform
Action Research and Social Justice: Some Experiences of Schools in the Inner City in International Action Research: A Casebook for Educational Reform (pp. 85-99). Reports on collaborative work that attempted to link action research to social justice and school improvement.
Creator
- Adams E., McGonagle R., Watts P. and Weiner G. (2007); ed. Hollingsworth S.
Publisher
- Falmer Press
Kid Size
School Grounds in Kid Size: the material world of childhood.
Places the school in the context of the child’s world, and stresses its importance as a learning environment.
Creator
- Eileen Adams, eds von Vegesack A., Oldiges J., Bullivant L. (1997) pp.155-161
Publisher
- Vitra Design Museum
How to obtain
ISBN 88-8118-254-8
Local Environmental Resources Centres and Education for Participation
Local Environmental Resources Centres and Education for Participation: Schools and the Environmental and Designs Professions.
Two little books on built environmental education, and how architects and planners might support it.
Creator
- Eileen Adams and Joan Kean
Publisher
- Newcastle Architecture Workshop, 1990
Machi-Work: Education for Participation
This book draws parallels between environmental education in the UK and Japan.
Creator
- Eileen Adams and Isami Kinoshita
Publisher
- Fudosha, Japan (distributed by Trentham Books, UK); 2000
How to obtain
ISBN185856 233 3
Making the Playground
Making the Playground: A Key Stage 2 Project in Design and Technology, Art, English and Mathematics. A case study of nine-year-old pupils working with a teacher and artist to change their school playground to create better provision for play.
Creator
- Eileen Adams
Publisher
- Trentham Books; 1993
How to obtain
ISBN 0 948080 922
Professional Practices
http://www.nsead.org/publications/book.aspx?id=123
This illustrates how different professionals use drawing in their work. Features drawing by archaeologist, artists, cartoonist, designers and illustrators.
Creator
- Eileen Adams
Publisher
- The Campaign for Drawing; 2006
How to obtain
The book can be obtained from NSEAD.
Public Art, People, Projects, Process
Public Art, People, Projects, Process explains about context, case studies and framework for development for public art.
Creator
- Eileen Adams
Publisher
- AN Publications; 1997
How to obtain
AN Publications, PO Box 23, Sunderland SR4 6DG; ISBN 0 907730 36 1
Richer Futures: Fashioning a New Politics
http://www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=101998&v=198
Education for Participation: Art and the Built Environment in Richer Futures: Fashioning a New Politics.
Work inspired by collaboration with Colin Ward and Ken Baynes – Front Door Project at Pimlico School, Art and the Built Environment Project and Learning through Landscapes.
Creator
- Eileen Adams, ed. K. Worpole
Publisher
- Earthscan Publications Ltd, London; 1999
How to obtain
ISBN 1-85383-539-0
Space and Place 2004
http://www.nsead.org/publications/book.aspx?id=91
This book illustrates how students in schools and in higher education use different drawing systems to explore notions of space and place.
Creator
- Eileen Adams
Publisher
- The Campaign for Drawing
How to obtain
This book can be obtained from NSEAD.
Space Place
This book is designed to help children explore The Lighthouse, Glasgow, but the approach is useful for both adults and children studying any building.
Creator
- Eileen Adams
Publisher
- The Lighthouse, Glasgow; 2000
How to obtain
ISBN 0 9536533 18
Teachers, Architects and Planners: Collaboration in Education
Teachers, Architects and Planners: Collaboration in Education; in Issues in Design Education.
How architects and planners can support built environment education.
Creator
- Eileen Adams; Thistlewood D. (ed)
Publisher
- Longman and National Society for Education in Art and Design, 1990
The International Journal of Art and Design
Power Drawing (2002) in The International Journal of Art and Design, vol 21, no 3. pp.220-233.
Explains the research underpinning the education programme of The Campaign for Drawing.
Creator
- Eileen Adams (pp.220-233)
Publisher
- National Society for Education in Art and Design
How to obtain
ISSN 0260-9991
Changing Places: young people’s participation in environmental planning
How planners and architects can work with teachers to engage young people in the process of planning for environmental change: changing attitudes towards the environment and changing the environment itself. Rationale, case studies and methods.
Creator
- Eileen Adams and Sue Ingham
Publisher
- The Children’s Society; 1998
How to obtain
The Children’s Society, Edward Rudolf House, Margery Street, London WC1; ISBN 1-899783-00-8
Learning through Landscapes
Learning through Landscapes: A report on the Use, Design, Management and Development of School Grounds.
Research report, with recommendations for development.
Creator
- Eileen Adams
Publisher
- Learning through Landscapes Trust, Winchester; 1990
Streetwise
Streetwise was the successor to the Bulletin of Environmental Education, edited by Colin Ward and published by the Town and Country Planning Association. Both were seminal influences on environmental education in the UK and abroad.
Creator
- Eileen Adams Guest Editor, issues 30, 33,35, 37, (1998-1999)
Publisher
- National Assoc. for Urban Studies, Brighton.
How to obtain
ISSN 0957 6517

