Presentation of Research on the Value of the Visual Practice results and methods at International Forum for Visual Practitioners annual conference 2013 by Heidi Forbes Öste. The study was done as part of doctoral research and is ongoing and hosted at http://forbesoste.com/research. The methods paper is available for download.
There are no shortage of ideas, it is understanding how to express them, and refine them to communicate them clearly and turn them into something that is the challenge.
The magic 85%of the population being visual thinkers is a statistic that everyone uses but nobody knows where it comes from Originally a study on a group of engineering students. Study quoted by department of labor without citation and thereby generalized.
Multiple sensory interactions with a thing, a place, a concept, provide better understanding then memory and ability to creatively discover new ways to look at it, improve on it, … See, feel, taste, smell, à enable us to recognise it in the abstract (a line drawing) or words written on a page, Attaching it to an emotion makes in contextual (memory), the spoken word Place Theory: understanding from the point of stimilating you multples
The visual practice that I will be explaining today and presenting in a workshop tomorrow has many different schools and methods but they all share some common values. They all require deep listening for key points Capturing key point without paraphrasing Creating something visual providing clarity for the complex Clustering information for better understanding Structuring for better and clearer action
Personal notes taken in a notebook or tablet Sketchnotes Doodles Visual Note-taking
Capturing content of a speaker or group for the purpose of shared understanding and learning – large scale or digital Visual Scribe Graphic Recorder Visual Harvest
Using large scale imagery, facilitation of a meeting and/or process to improve collaboration and understanding of common purpose or goal through big picture thinking. Graphic Facilitation Explicit Group Memory
Using graphic facilitation techniques for strategic purposes: change management, visioning, organizational development. The example here being David Sibbet, founder of the Grove, and one of their templates for strategic visualization processes.
Remember that the ones who make the decision as to whether your work is included in the budget (holding the purse strings) may have NO experience with the Visual Practice and/or its benefits. The more data you can provide to prove its efficacy and how it will SAVE them money or even better MAKE them money, the better.
The visual practice that I will be explaining today and presenting in a workshop tomorrow has many different schools and methods but they all share some common values. They all require deep listening for key points Capturing key point without paraphrasing Creating something visual providing clarity for the complex Clustering information for better understanding Structuring for better and clearer action