How picturebooks enable intercultural communication: a practice-based approach

Forrester, Katie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8623-5966 (2019) How picturebooks enable intercultural communication: a practice-based approach. PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.

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Abstract

My research project is a practice-based exploration of ways in which visual narrative engages readers of picturebooks in intercultural communication. My approach to designing and illustrating picturebooks uses an intercultural lens, opposed to a multicultural lens, which has been found to be a limiting view of culturally diverse communities. Intercultural communication considers groups of people within a network, where interactions occur and centres on self-definition, rather than applied theory or policy. In my research project, I question how the visual narrative of picturebooks enables intercultural communication and how illustrators construct images that facilitates it. To explore this topic, I use my practice of illustrating picturebooks as the method of enquiry; narrative theory provides a theoretical framework for practical research. The result is a design framework that I, and other illustrators, can use to consider picturebook design and illustration as a platform for intercultural communication.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	picture books; illustration; design
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > NC Drawing Design Illustration
Depositing User:	Katie Forrester
Date Deposited:	17 Jun 2026 09:39
Last Modified:	17 Jun 2026 09:39
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/16355

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