This is part of a series of posts about the VizThink Challenge. Previous posts have covered how the challenge came about, an overview, what images were used, and what the words tell us. Other levels of information In this post we’ll be looking at the third and fourth levels of information derived from a VisualsSpeak [...] Click to continue reading »
VizThink Challenge: What the words tell us
The VizThink Challenge offered Artrain a chance to have three facilitators using three different visual techniques work on an organizational challenge as part of the VizThink 08 conference. Forty table groups using the VisualSpeak ImageSet each created an image and wrote a description in response to the question: How can we visualize the power of [...] Click to continue reading »
VizThink Challenge: Which images were used and why it matters
The VizThink Challenge engaged close to 400 visual thinkers attending VizThink 08 to work on an organizational challenge with Artrain USA. Forty table groups participated in the VisualsSpeak part of the process. Each table created an image and a written description in response to the question: How can we visualize the power of the Artrain [...] Click to continue reading »
VizThink Challenge: Overview
At VizThink 08, we participated in a challenge to assist Artrain with an organizational challenge. They are transitioning from using trains to specially designed trucks to bring their exhibits around the country. We didn’t have time to prepare, and there were two other facilitators and techniques working on the same problem. I worked with forty [...] Click to continue reading »
Artrain’s challenge
As part of the VizThink 08 conference, philanthropic partners were selected to take part. One of those selected was Artrain USA. For thirty seven years Artrain has brought artwork to rural communities around the country in an antique train. “Artrain USA is America’s Hometown Art Museum. A nonprofit organization, its mission is to enrich lives [...] Click to continue reading »
John, Yoko, peace and images
Garr Reynolds over at Presentation Zen reminded me that today is the twenty seventh anniversary of John Lennon’s death. Garr was not very far from where I am now in Oregon when he heard, I was in my third floor studio at Rhode Island School of Design. I remember the images I was working on [...] Click to continue reading »
The intersection of photos, data, and story
Recently I was in San Fransisco for a day, and stopped by the Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD). There was a show of photographs of families and their food. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats organized by COPIA, The American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts. This fascinating photo essay documenting 30 families from [...] Click to continue reading »
Inspirational power of stories
I am so blessed. I get to work with the VisualsSpeak tools all the time. The absolute best part of it is hearing the stories. Have people pick photographs, and they respond with amazing stories. I get to laugh and play with people in the most incredible ways through the images. Shed an occasional tear [...] Click to continue reading »
Spontaneous Stereotyping and Storytelling
I rode in the 2007 Providence Bridge Pedal in Portland Oregon along with my husband and 20,000 other people. There were three groups, those in blue vests who rode across 6 bridges (14 miles) , those in green vests who rode 8 bridges (24 miles) , and those in red vests who rode across 10 [...] Click to continue reading »