Monday Morning General Session
Date: Monday, January 28, 2008
Time: 9:00am - 10:30am
Room: Metropolitan Ballroom
Description
Hands-on Visual Thinking Actvities and Discussions
How to Draw with Dave Gray
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Most of us know how to draw, we’ve just forgotten how. Dave Gray will give us a quick refresher on how to draw beyond the stick figure and how to begin to communicate information. No previous drawing experience is necessary.
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An Interview with Bob Horn by Nancy Duarte and Cliff Atkinson
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Bob is the author of Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century. The landmark book, out of print until recently, has been republished and will be available for sale at the conference. He will be doing a book signing immediately after this general session. In addition, Bob is also the inventor of Information Mapping’s Methodology and founder of the Company which is the leader in authoring structured content. He is a visiting scholar at Stanford University and has taught at Harvard and Columbia universities. He is also author of the Mapping Great Debates series Can Computers Think? and of Mapping Hypertext. He is the director of the project to apply visual thinking to public policy issues, working on climate change and energy strategy, nuclear waste disposal, foreign policy, as well as other “wicked” problems on the local and state level.
During this session, Nancy Duarte and Cliff Atkinson will interview Bob about visual thinking, visual language, and the future of global communication. It’s sure to be an exciting session with a legend in our field.
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Session Notes
Bob Horn mentioned a foundation that was visualizing public databases including earmarks. This foundation is called the Sunlight Foundation http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/ . Kristin W from Portland.
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