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Visual summaries as a gateway for deeper exploration

One of the growing uses of hand-drawn visuals is ‘1 Page Visual Summaries’. These visual summaries can be derived from various source materials, and they aim to distil key information into engaging and visually appealing formats, serving as a gateway for deeper exploration. The rise in the popularity of 1 page visual summaries may likely stem from our modern world where information overload is pressing on all of us.

The evolution of our work in graphic facilitation and graphic recording began with a focus on facilitating meetings with visual planning and tools, and, alongside this we created graphic records (or visual scribing), by capturing content live from meetings and events on large-scale visual maps. The growth in the digital potential then allowed the development to offer these same services remotely.

The work further extended into training sessions, creating animations and bespoke visuals. The visual summaries are a branch of the bespoke visuals, and a branch that we have seen a rise in demand for. Their popularity is very likely due to their potential to convey information in a condensed and accessible way in a world where information overload is pressing on all of us.

If you would like to explore a Visual Summary for your work, book a live in-person or remote graphic recording or just explore the range of services please do get in contact, it would be great to hear from you.

ECIS, the Educational Collaborative for International Schools Leadership Conference, Berlin. A different way to create graphic records.

I had great pleasure in creating these two graphic records for ECIS, the Educational Collaborative for International Schools Leadership Conference in Berlin. It was a brilliantly organised conference with keynotes and multiple choices of sessions with rich learning opportunities. And, plenty of time to network, discuss and talk.

We had two 3 metre graphic walls and throughout the conference, the boards were in the central circulation area. The first board was to be capturing a synthesis of the information about the conference, it’s core content and themes. I was given some pre-information to digest and use. I also audio recorded the two keynotes (morning and afternoon) on day one and I was also able to sit in the afternoon keynote for a while too. The second board was to live capture responses from the delegates; their comments, ideas and thoughts.

The aim was to complete both boards at the same time, working between the two boards throughout the time. It sounds straightforward now I write it down but it took some working through to pull together.

I began by setting up the layout and key themes, then in the lunchtime I found a quiet spot outside in the Berlin sunshine and listened to most of keynote 1, sketchnoting the key points, and then I began to add depth to the structure and I repeated this at the end of the day by listened to the second Keynote.

The responses for the second board from the delegates came from a mix of acting as a live scribe during conversations, responses written by delegates on post-its and from gems of conversations in the twitter feed.

One consistent comment made to me by delegates as they circulated back and forth through the two days was how useful and interesting it was seeing the boards evolve over the two days.

This was a vibrant and interactive conference as maybe you would expect of an international leadership in learning conference. We were also very lucky to have bright sunny spring days in a beautiful setting in Berlin to capture fresh thoughts in the breaks.

Thank you ECIS.