Drawn Together through Visual Practice - Softcover

Agerbeck, Brandy; Bird, Kelvy; Bradd, Sam; Shepherd, Jennifer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692726004 ISBN 13: 9780692726006

Publisher: Kelvy Bird, 2016

Synopsis

Drawn Together through Visual Practice demonstrates the power of images as a primary sensemaking device in an age of unprecedented complexity. Twenty-seven advanced practitioners contribute to this volume, sharing experience-based methods and insights. Professionals in visual practice, alongside cross-disciplinary practitioners in other fields, delve into deep and resonant questions at the core of connection and communication.

Leaders in facilitation, conflict mediation, education – and all other areas using visual processes to establish common ground – will find an unparalleled wisdom of experience in these pages.

About this title

About the Author

Four visual practitioners came together to edit this volume: Brandy Agerbeck, Kelvy Bird, Sam Bradd and Jennifer Shepherd. Additional contributors include: Lisa Arora, Mary Alice Arthur, Barbara Bash, Stina Brown, Alfredo Carlo, Bryan Coffman, Aftab Erfan, Martin Haussmann, Aaron Johannes, Christopher Knowlton, Eva-Lotta Lamm, Nevada Lane, Jayce Pei Yu Lee, Claudia Madrazo, Christine Martell, Misha Mercer, Robert Mittman, Laurence Musgrove, Bob Stilger, Peter Stoyko, John Ward, Anthony Weeks, and Michelle Winkel.

From the Inside Flap

This anthology brings 27 voices together to paint a broad picture of our evolving work and the audiences we serve. Contributions include:

1. Brandy Agerbeck: Making Room for Making: In praise of imperfect drawings and the humans who make them
2. Dr. Laurence Musgrove: Drawing-to-Learn: A general studies course for first-year college students
3. Alfredo Carlo: In Front of the Wall
4. Eva Lotta Lamm: Visual Improvisation: How improvising influences my sketchnoting
5. Solo-Practitioner Partnerships: A conversation between Lisa Arora and Robert Mittman
6. Aaron Johannes: Sensemaking through Arts-Infused, Person-Centered Planning Processes
7. Christopher Knowlton: Dancineering, Researchals, Bodystorming, and Informances: Movement-based approaches to sensemaking and transmediation through contemporary dance
8. Anthony Weeks: Stories and Storytelling
9. Mary Alice Arthur: The Secret to Long-Term Impact in Your Engagements
10. Bryan Coffman: Using Perspectives to Build a Practice
11. Sam Bradd: Cultivating Cultural Safety: The visual practitioner's role in motivating positive action
12. Aftab Erfan: The Use of Imagery in Conflict Engagement
13. Kelvy Bird: Steady, to Scale
14. Stina Brown: A Learning Journey: Connecting self to planet
15. Claudia Madrazo: Sharing a Dia Experience
16. Barbara Bash: Embodied Mark-Making: The Big Brush experience
17. Jennifer Shepherd: Discovering Wisdom Within and Between: How storyboards, portraits, and visual explanations can help us learn to solve the puzzles of our time
18. Michelle Winkel: Sensemaking, Potential Space and Art Therapy with Organizations: Moving beyond language
19. John Ward: Kinesthetic Modeling: Re-learning how to grope in the dark
20. Nevada Lane: Becoming a Visual Change Practitioner
21. Misha Mercer: Four Mindsets of a Visual Ecology in the Workplace: Re-visioning language through visual thinking
22. Christine Martell: Rigorous Design of Visual Tools that Deepen Conversations and Spark New Insights
23. Peter Stoyko: Imagery that Travels Well: Making yourself understood across cultures wit the help of visual language
24. Martin Haussman, interviewed by Brandy Agerbeck: The Thermal Lift of Visualization: How to empower people in visual thinking, learning, and co-creation
25. Jayce Pei Yu Lee, interviewed by Kelvy Bird: Bridging on the Rise
26. Bob Stilger: When We Cannot See the Future, Where Do We Begin?
27. Jennifer Shepherd and Sam Bradd: Reflection and Visual Practice

We find ourselves in an age of unprecedented complexity, with increased globalization and access to information, while boundaries all around us dissolve. Visual practice helps make sense of this changing landscape by shifting our relationship to self, other, and society. Drawings give shape to our ideas, provide sharing of methodology, and reframe what is possible.

Visual practice makes the fleeting and ephemeral nature of spoken conversation concrete. Drawings can take infinite form: brushstrokes expressing gesture, metaphors that offer common ground, maps to guide a system, and devices for reconciliation. Individuals and groups alike make these meaningful marks. Communities of thousands can access key content through the aid of images. We see our thoughts from new perspectives through visual interpretation, and we relate with fresh eyes to ourselves and others.

Visuals draw us together. They allow us to consider where we have been, who we are, and who we want to be in the future. We mark these transitions through the acts and artifacts of drawing.
Visual practice is a rich and diverse field. This anthology connects ideas and practitioners at a moment when our practice is dramatically expand- ing. Let's pause and survey the field to date: What work is being done? What questions currently guide us? Which theories inform us? Who do we serve, and what is the impact of our craft? What do we learn from our individual experience? And how do we contribute back to the greater field? Now is the moment to embrace visual thinking, practice, and facilitation as a defining technology of our time.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kelvy Bird
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0692726004
• ISBN 13: 9780692726006
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 322
• Editor: Agerbeck Brandy, Bird Kelvy, Bradd Sam, Shepherd Jennifer