Visual Communication

Using pictures is one of the oldest forms of communication. Already 40.000 years ago the Neanderthals left traces in caves across Europe. Naive cave drawings, which outlasted the ravages of time. They give us an understanding of the way our ancestors lived thousands of years ago through simply looking at them. Pictures as a mean of communication can help to cross generations as well as language barriers and will add an extra value to modern communication.

There are different forms of professional visualization. By using pictures the spoken word is captured in scenes. In workshops or conferences it is used to draw the minutes of the meeting. That way of using visual communication is called graphic recording.

Drawings can also capture processes and through this be used to visualize more complex cause and effect relations. That profession in visual communication is called graphic facilitation. It helps the moderator as well as the participants to follow the train of thoughts and work more efficient towards the common goal.

Greeneducation4all is offering visual communication in all its facets. Our services include graphic recording of workshops as well as facilitation of group processes in form of big-size drawn posters.

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Everybody that had to organized a conference with participants from different speaking countries knows the addition corresponding organizational challenges. Translation services are needed, the material has to be available in different languages and the minutes have to be translated. At least for the last point, there is a possible alternative by using pictures instead of words.

There are many convincing arguments for adding an intriguing technique to presentations, workshops and conferences - Graphic recording.

Your benefits:

Overcoming language barriers
Keeping track with the presentations content
Making things said understandable for the audience despite the educational background
Use the drawings to sum up the day or to remind what was said in the beginning of another
Replace or add an extra value to minutes of meetings
Make use of the visuals in conference protocols and follow up communications

Facilitation of a group process is a highly complexe task. The technique of graphic facilitation can be used to support those processes. Paintings that show what the group was discussing about and what they agreed on, do not leave a lot space for interpretation. When the group is following up and continues with the process the result of the graphic facilitation will help to remember and to continue the group process in a very efficient manner.

Your benefits:

Overcoming language barriers
Agree on one and the same drawing and reduce misunderstandings
Following the train of thoughts during and after the process
Making things said understandable for the audience despite the educational background
Use the drawings to sum up the day or to remind what was said in the beginning of another
Make use of the visuals when continuing group processes or explain the outcome to outsiders

Graphic Recording between arts and science

Berlin, 12. December 2019. Hybrid Futures in the Futurium, next to the main train station of Berlin. Greeneducation4all was asked to do the graphical protocol of the talk – between arts and science. The event brings together different professions and gives them a stage to elaborate future scenarios. This time it was science and art […]

Visualizing “Spectacle or Science” for the Alfred Töpfer Academy

Schneverdingen, 21. November 2019. Commissioned by the Alfred Töpfer Academy, I had the chance to visualize a workshop with the title “spectacle or science”. Not only that I did the Graphical Protocol, but I was also presenting this time. Fortunately, I had the minutes of the meeting prepared beforehand to be ready in time.

Graphical protocol for the Conservation Days 2019

Visselhövede, 06. Und 07. November 2019. Greeneducation4all was asked to protocol the Conservation Days in Lower Saxony. The big size visualized minutes of the meetings included the portraits of the presenters and summarized the main content of their speeches. The core areas of the expert conference were climate change and infrastructure planning. Besides others, one […]

Visualizing the 24th TASIMA conference

Magdeburg, 18. And 19. September 2019. For the 24th time the TASIMA Conference was held in Magdeburg. The conference brings together different stakeholder, scientists and government representatives concerned about waste reduction and recycling in urban areas. Greeneducation4all supported the event with a graphical protocol which helped following the red thread throughout the two-days-conference. Last year […]

Graphic recording for Environmental Ministry

Berlin, 18. August 2019. Greeneducation4all did the graphical protocol at the Open Doors Day in the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU). It was a real honor to protocol our Federal Minister Svenja Schulze next to the activists of Fridays for Future on that day. In the beginning of the […]

Bumblebee cartoon for Environmental Ministry

Berlin, January until July 2019. In collaboration with the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) we created a comic book about a wild bee, a bumblebee princess. All through her year, we follow the little insect and experience her challenges and her life’s cycle. All illustrations were done in Aquarelle […]

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Graphic Recording

Graphic Facilitation