It has probably not escaped a lot of the blog readers that Bigger Picture is currently work with the climate summit, illustrating some of the complex issues.
There are a few other visual practitioner here, using similar tools to help create understanding. One of them is David Gillette, who does an excellent job of creating visual explanations.

As you might have noted, we like people that use visual tools to communicate a complex message. The story of stuff project is great example of this. Below you can see their latest film: The Story of Cap & Trade

“If we (the visual community) are what the world has been waiting for,
what might be our unique contribution?”

COP15 is happening the next 10 days
– sealing a deal to prevent global warming beyond 2 degrees

As many may know the next 10 days the world leaders will be finalizing an agreement which is to replace the Kyoto protocol and move the world closer to dealing constructively with some of the growing challenges we are facing in terms of the present and future climate changes.

We are now a group of 5 visual thinkers and practitioners who over the next 12 days will be present at the climate negotiations in Copenhagen (www.cop15.com). We have been invited to join WWF international in their work in getting a fair deal.

In this effort we want to involve as many visual thinkers and practitioners from around the world as possible.

Christoph Niemann that makes illustrations, visualizations and thoughtful comments for The New York Times has been out collecting odd shaped leaves. Weather it’s drawing with coffee on napkins or making icons with Lego Niemann is king!

The New York Times

A super cool example of how visuals can help us see matters from differnt angles. Gridd is a dutch consulting company that help their clients see what they say – among other things.

Visit What the Gregg and The Gridd on Flickr

What does women’s fashion, politics and bird flu have in common? Not necessarily anything. But the biggest stories in our life is now available in visual language. Fast Company expands our idea of mindmapping in their new book The Visual Miscallanium. And it’s awsome!

It’s all about the writing – or is it? The playfulness, the intentions and the aestetics in this film is touching.

Here is a visual way of communicating stories – with dots. It seems that the simpler visual material you use, the better the message becomes. I like this one where Monday Dots explains behavior. Maybe we’d have to do one similar with stick figures.

14 days ago it was finally decided that we were to contribute to the Climate Talks held in Barcelona – a 7 days negotiation process leading up to COP15. As a support team of WWF we traveled to Barcelona bringing a lot of ideas and concepts to try out: Ways in which we could apply visual language, visual thinking and visual practice to stimulate the negotiators. We figured that the complex issues of climate change could use a bit of visuals – in order for people to better see what each other means. We have engaged with our colleagues around the world to support these efforts. The above slideshow gives examples of all the ways in which we have “engaged with the Climate talks”. This document now serves as a catalogue which various parties the coming weeks will look at decide how much of it we will also contribute with at the final negotiations in Copenhagen December 8th to 18th.