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.

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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!

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.

We are on our second day in the Barcelona Climate Talks. We have taken small steps in applying visual techniques to various parts of the conference. On the above photos you can see Stine working on what will become a display of visuals conveing the essence of WWF’s 10 steps leading to a successful COP15 agreement.

You can see more photos from the first days in Barcelona in the sidebar of this blog.

We have come to experience 9 important steps (see further below) you as a visual practitioner can take to make to takeover a conference with visual tools and techniques:

We believe that any person can draw, it’s just a matter of putting the pen to the paper. We also believe that drawing and visual thinking can be a powerful tool in communication and facilitation. In order to help people use this powerful tool, we have come up with seven elements that will make you able of drawing almost everything.

Introduction

See full post for all 9 videos.

Xplane and the Economist is just out with this new “Did You Know” video on You Tube. They have made it in connection to the upcoming Media Conversion Forum in New York.

Watch the video and see the numbers. I like the numbers. I like the message. And I keep wondering: If this is all happening to the hardware and software around us, how does this effect our behaviour and our ways of being together? If these are all technologial upgrades happening…what about our “social software” upgrades? What does this development mean for education? For adult learning? For the way we meet each other face to face? For having great conversation? For figuring out how to solve complex challenges? What do we need to be aware of? Who will invest in these social software upgrades? How? What (& who) risks being left out/behind? And what new possibilities are out there? And will be coming to a city near you soon? What a journey!

We do know, that a visual language can help us make meaning in a world of complexity and can support us in making meaning of it all. But exaclty how does it work? Tom Wujec, who is a information designer gives here an explanation to why and how visuals work. (And by the way – it’s supercool!!).