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Writing on the Walls

Visual journalism that sticks...

Art and TechnologyNovember 5

Collaboration with Michael Berman to explain the role of technology for Art Center College of Design Community

Visuals in LearningJuly 28

Link to NSF/MIT project about visuals in learning visuals in learning

Engelbart’s visionJuly 16

Trying to create a visual that captures the “gestalt” of Doug Engelbart’s comprehensive vision for raising collective IQ to solve complex globbal problems — the vision that preceded his groundbreaking computer inventions. The problem is — the vision is holistic. Murals are 2D. The venn-diagram approach was suggested by Engelbart scholar Valerie Landau.

Tangible MediaJune 5

Pioneers of “writing on the walls”) will be intrigued with the work of Hiroshi Ishii at MIT http://tangible.media.mit.edu/people/hiroshi.php
He was here last week to give a talk at Stanford and seems to have some solutions to some questions a lot of us have been wrestling over — how to merge the power of physical/visual communication with technology/telepresence.
http://tangible.media.mit.edu/people/hiroshi.php

The 5 Rs of Writing on the WallsDecember 27 2007

How and why do visuals work to help groups think better? Christine drew this image of the “5 Rs” that help people work together more strategically and creatively. Link to our podcast about using large paper displays of information in the meeting room

Visuals help Relationships among people, they create a Resonance between thought and feeling, the enable a group to experience Reflection of their Collective IQ, they provide a Rest for our data-overloaded brain, and they show the Relevance of ideas that may seem unrelated until they are visually connected as part of an emerging story.

Relationships– Visuals separate ideas/issues from personalities. When ideas are explicit and on the page, in their own words, they become manageable. This image was for the Art Center College of Design’s IT Department, showing the different expectations of stakeholders. Another example that ……

Resonance–Visuals tap deeply into our consciousness providing us