ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the application of drawing in problem solving and design, for a designer-maker, and the author's own practice in landscape architecture. Field sketching is proposed as a designer's tool, with design that has landscape-fit as an over-arching principle. Field sketching and associated visualisations are media that stimulate and record reflection, and help to articulate spatial, visual and experiential concepts of landscape design. Using the principles of reflective practice, people can direct attention to the process of doing. The children's drawings are included as an endnote. The children were provided with sketchbooks and pencils, but given no instruction. Without anxiety, they draw spontaneously, quickly, and with great enthusiasm: Louis Campbell intent on details and happy to draw outside, Edie Johnson describing and categorising as part of her exploring the shingle, and Doyle Johnson understanding the mechanics of his body, the skimming stone and the water ripples.
