Thursday the 22nd of November was th first time JAM got the oppertunity to give something back to the visually oriented community. Koos Eissen invited Jan and myself to come lead a workshop, where the main goal was to try and get the attendents to communicate visually towards a shared presentation...within 2 hours! Their assignment was to come up with a way to get people who are about to enter a 2 hour workshop (at 16.00 in the aftrnoon!) into a focussed and fresh mindset.
In the spirit of the course, Jan and I created the assignment an hour before we were going into the workshop. The pressure effct still leads to littl diamonds!
What was good to see was that we as "professional visual translators" are used to thinking visually. You don not notice this fact until you see how difficultit is for people to communicate with sketches instead of words. Another great realization was that by telling these students about our experiences, we were finally creating a place for ourselves as craftsmen. If we keep this up, we'll end up giving body to the craft of visual translation.
The next day I looked back at our program and saw that I have been selling ourselves short, hen I was talking about visual translation. Our workshop consisted of 1 hour of visual thinking, 1 hour of visual translation and 1 hour of visual presentation / feedback. I must compliment Koos on his very correct choice of words when he cose the name for this course. Visual Communication summerizes these 3 pivital points perfectly and even paves the way for a plethora of other points which we encounter every day in our work environment.
Hopefully in a couple of years we'll be visual communication experts...with our own course at th University of Delft? You never know where this will lead. Especially when a seed like this is planted in MY head...
Thanks koos!
Check the pictures on flickr!
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