Flashcard No. 4: Visual Facilitating & Graphic Recording
Flashcard No. 4 "Visual Facilitating & Graphic Recording" was developed by Kommunikationslotsen in close cooperation with Neuland. It shows you everything you need to know to get started in the world of visualization and visual facilitation. Find out at a glance how you can facilitate group communication with graphics, text and images and how you can use these insights in your daily work in meetings, workshops and lessons.
From the cave paintings of hunter-gatherers and the ceiling frescoes of the Sistine Chapel to contemporary comics: images and picture stories have played an important role in the communication of knowledge since the earliest times. Today, it has been proven that thinking, learning, dialog and planning processes work much better with the help of images than purely verbal interactions or lists.
The inventor of the visualization technique "mind mapping", Tony Buzan, was convinced that we can use up to 99 percent of our brain more effectively if we simultaneously address the areas of the brain designed for analytical thinking and visual imagination.
Graphic recording is an attraction
Every event that involves dialogue, understanding or learning benefits from the support of visualizers. Creating live images during a meeting or a closed session is always a small attraction.
Paper
Write and sketch in black and white. Adapt your pen to the surface: The larger the area, the thicker the pen. Black markers with a wedge tip and white paper (pinboard paper or paper from a roll) have proven to be effective. Gradually color in lettering, objects, symbols and other elements of a picture. Underlay, underline or shade the lettering in color. For example, with pastel crayons, wax crayons or colored markers.
Color
When it comes to color, less is more! You can create attractive charts with black and two additional colors (e.g. grey and yellow). For more complex images, colors help to structure the content. To prevent the whole thing from becoming too colorful, use two adjacent colors in the color wheel (e.g. yellow and orange or violet and blue).
Font
Optimize the legibility of your handwriting: write in block letters and not cursive. Make sure there is enough space between letters, words and lines. Structure "text images" with color.
Containers
All elements (boxes, clusters, templates) that contain text are referred to as "containers". Containers help to structure and characterize complex content. They are useful when it comes to accommodating longer texts and highlighting important information.
Lines
Depict hierarchies, chronologies, connections, sequences and contrasts with lines and arrows. Whether dotted, dashed, wavy, chaotic or ascending in steps - the line, the arrow and even the individual dot are important graphic aids.
Symbols
Many objects that are relevant to an organization can be represented with very simple pictures. However, pictorial symbols can also make abstract things visible: the light bulb stands for ideas, the scales for balance and the shark's fin for danger.
Males
Males are used to represent interactions between people. Especially when collaboration, teams and communication are important topics, "males" are a must. Males are usually very abstract. The "basic male", for example, only consists of an "O" and an upside-down "U". If you add a "W", it can stand and even sit and walk.
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The perfect complement to flashcard no. 4: "bikablo". The trainer's dictionary of visual language. By Martin Haussmann. Order in the Neuland Shop.
