http://writingonthewalls.com Visual journalism that sticks... Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:35:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Collaboration with Michael Berman to explain the role of technology for Art Center College of Design Community http://writingonthewalls.com/2008/11/art-and-technology/ Link to NSF/MIT project about visuals in learning visuals in learning http://writingonthewalls.com/2008/07/visuals-in-learning/ 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 ... http://writingonthewalls.com/2008/07/engelbarts-vision/ 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 ... http://writingonthewalls.com/2008/06/tangible-media/ 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, ... http://writingonthewalls.com/2007/12/the-5-rs-of-writing-on-the-walls/ Writing on the Walls workshop student Julie Stuart's visual journalism career has taken off in less than a year. You can track her progress because she applied her skill to a visual snapshot of her and husband Bryan's 2007 . Congratulations, Julie! (full mural) http://writingonthewalls.com/2007/12/holiday-mural/ A beautiful example of a visual metaphor that does more than represent information: it helps inform new thinking about what it represents. This is a mind map of the organization of a library by librarian Sue McGuinness of Unversity of California, San Diego. http://writingonthewalls.com/2007/12/the-library-as-a-cell/ “Writing on the Walls” is our term for the practice of using mural-size paper in a room to help the group see the “big picture” of their ideas, in images and pictures. This site is designed to help organizational leaders as well as visual practitioners think more systematically ... http://writingonthewalls.com/2007/12/future-of-talent/ Thanks for visiting our new site, devoted methodologies and research about "writing on the walls." We are pioneers in graphic facilitation and visual journalism. There is a long and elegant history to our practice that holds some keys to understanding how we all can "see more clearly" in the ... http://writingonthewalls.com/2007/09/hello-world/