Monthly Archive for March, 2009

Visual SenseMaking Intro Workshop

Published on March 31, 2009 in News. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

May 16, 2009 | New York City | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Taught by Elizabeth Pastor, Co-founder and Partner, Humantific

SuperCharging Business Thinking!
For more than ten years, the Humantific team has been helping business leaders make sense of complex business challenges and opportunities utilizing its hybrid Visual SenseMaking toolbox. With extensive experience working with organizations, we understand that before meaningful ChangeMaking occurs, meaningful SenseMaking needs to occur.

Join us in our first-ever public Visual SenseMaking Intro Workshop on May 16th!

Registration: $550 per person ($500 pre-registration by April 20).

Additional Info: Download this pdf for more details or e-mail us at
workshops (at) humantific.com (please use the subject heading Visual SenseMaking).

Mapping Research Behaviors

Published on March 22, 2009 in Blog. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .


Published recently in Seed Magazine: Johan Bollen’s “Map of Science”:  ”Is it possible to anticipate emerging areas of research before they exist? What do scientists read when they don’t think anyone is looking? If we could take a real-time snapshot of innovation, what would it look like?”

We love this work!

A New Picture of Science

Visual SenseMaking at Liquidnet

Published on March 18, 2009 in News. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Last week the Humantific team began a series of Visual SenseMaking Workshops for cross-disciplinary groups at Liquidnet in New York.

For more than ten years, the Humantific team has been helping business leaders make sense of complex business challenges and opportunities utilizing its hybrid Visual SenseMaking toolbox. Believing that such skills supercharge business thinking we are now offering Visual SenseMaking skill-building workshops to our clients. Business leaders in many industries are bolting these powerful skills unto their existing toolsets and changing the nature of cross-disciplinary communication in many companies.

What is Visual SenseMaking?

Visual SenseMaking is the activity of making sense of ambiguous complex situations through visual methods and tools including words, images, drawings, diagrams, charts, graphs, etc. This involves not only visual thinking, but creating visual ordering systems.

While the skill of Visual SenseMaking can be broadly applied to many life situations on planet earth, we focus on Visual SenseMaking in the context of organizations, organizational situations, systems, processes, challenges, opportunities, etc.

Visual SenseMaking Workshops are an integral part of Humantific’s Complexity Navigation Program.

We build real hands-on skills through experiential learning.

Feedback

Recent Participant FeedBack from Visual SenseMaking Workshops:

“All Humantific workshops are life changing”

“Great insights, Great experience”

“A fun, engaging, impactful, meaningful day”

“Great facilitation”

“I now get why being able to visually communicate is so important”

“Highly recommended, Wish it was longer”

“I love the term sensemaking. It encompasses really what is going on”

“Can’t wait to take the other workshops”

“A great foundation for visual communication literacy”

“It’s a set of skills that every modern professional should have”

Open Session

There is an OPEN Visual SenseMaking Workshop upcoming in New York on May 16, 2009.

To register call 212-699-6441 or send an email to workshops (at) humantific (dot) com.

See more here!

Those interested in this subject can also join the Social SenseMaking Group on Facebook!

Tiny Book Series

Published on March 17, 2009 in Blog. 0 Comments

Just for fun we recently created a tiny book on Visual SenseMaking as a small gift to our clients. The first in the tiny book series; Business Concept Models / Collection 1 includes examples of visual models that the Humantific team has created over the years.

Mailing List

If you would like to get on the Humantific tiny book series mailing list send us your snail mail address:

Please write “tiny book series” or “I want to become a client” as the subject. :-)

programs (at) humantific (dot) com

Design 4.0 Rocks the House

Published on March 9, 2009 in News. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Continuing NextD’s provocative ReRethinking Design message CoFounder, GK VanPatter rocked the house at the EXPOSED 09 Conference in Phoenix last week presenting Design 4.0 / Social Transformation Design for the first time. Utilizing the 2009 NextD Complexity Scale of Design 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 as a visual backdrop he spoke unscripted for one hour to an enthusiastic audience of masters students, PhD students and faculty members at the Arizona State University School of Design. Tapping into the deep visual synthesis capabilities of NextDesign Leadership Institute, GK explained the complex waves of change underway outside of design and how they relate to design practice and design education. Founded in New York in 2002, NextD is internationally recognized as a leader in the creation of lenses to understand the changing nature of design in the 21st century. VanPatter encouraged educators and students to value their strengths, to recognize the degree of change underway and to rise to the new challenges facing design leadership in the 21st century. Watch for additional news on NextD Futures and Design 3.0-4.0 coming soon.

See excerpts from the presentation here on the NextD Facebook page: NextD_ReReThinking Design

Design 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0
The Rise of Visual SenseMaking

In a Special Issue of NextD Journal, Peter Jones PhD recently interviewed GK VanPatter about NextD’s journey through the rethinking design landscape, the opportunities facing the design community and the rise of visual sensemaking in an increasingly complex world.

See the entire interview here: NextD Design 4.0