During the next 7 days negotiations leading up to COP 15 in Copenhagen (the new deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol) is taking place. We are supporting WWF during these days. For each day we will upload visuals of the main issues, ideas and messages which WWF find important to communicate. We invite anyone out there to join us. The above is from the premeetings this weekend. More to come here and on our Slideshare site.

Here is our “News Update” for 2009 (View the above in full screen).
Below you will find several actions you can take.

1) Get a picture of what we have been up to so far in 2009

2) Join the Survival Academy – a conference we are co-hosting parallel to the COP15

3) Upgrade your visual thinking and practice skills for only 175€

4) List your Top 10 words / concepts which you’d like a Visual Language for

5) Stay tuned to what we do and help expand the field

Imagine you have a visual language which can help you communicate exactly what you need to communicate. And you would be able to visualise it with simple strokes on the whiteboard or a napkin or a flipchart.

The above post it’s show 12 words/ concepts which each have a following icon. The topic is Climate Change. The situation where they can be used is in a dialogue around how your organisation considers its rol in the current debate around climate change and COP15.

What visual langauge do you need?

Post a comment below with the Top 10 words you’d like a illustration and/ or an icon for.
Please include three things in your comment:

1) What industry / topic?
2) When – In what situation do you need it?
3) What 10 words / concepts would you like to have a Visual Langauage for?

This is a pilot project which we intend to run over the next ½ year. We will gather all the words we get and follow up on our blog with the progress we are making and get back to those of you who have submitted words.

Thank you!

There is a group of Danish Cartoonists who has created this site where they from now on and up to the COP15 will post illustrations and cartoons. We hope to engage with the group in terms of some of the events we will be partcipating in. Thanks to Erik Petri for the link.

We are always on the lookout for strong visual language which can help people have great dialogues about complex issues. Thanks to Simon from the Kaospilots we got to know of the GreenMap project. They simply make map and icons for green issues.

Here is this years winner of “Ukraine’s Got Talent”. Drawing with sand. Not only does she master the art of making a visual story with sand, she tells a story with new twist and turns, as she whipes out and rearranges the sand to show new sides of the story.

Since August Loa Baastrup has been doing an internship at Bigger Picture. Loa is a student at CBS and you can follow her Blog (The blog is in Danish).

Abdul Dube, a South African Kaospilot with a love for visual language has also joined Bigger Picture as an intern. You can follow Abdul on his Blog. The blog is in English).

Loa and Abdul will finalise their internship in December. Loa’s focus is ”Visual Langauge for Sustainability Dialogues” and Abduls’ is ”The Bigger Picture of the Visual Thinking and Practice Field”.