Although I have long used drawing to help me write and take fieldnotes, building sentences from images, I hadn’t done it in reverse until the 2014 Technologies in Practice spring seminar, when I was asked to draw pictures of a workshop. In industry, it is apparently called “Visual Storytelling” (Intel).

Now, when people give a talk, I can draw, in real time, a version of their presentation. Here are some examples from presentations by Lucy Suchman on her Flatworlds project (2014), David Turnbull on “To talk of many things: of stories, string, ships and kin” (2015), Atsuro Morita on his water modelling software fieldwork (2016), and the UNIKE project closing conference (2017).

I enjoy visualising project workshops, and providing a thematic and anthropologically informed analysis from a viewpoint external to the project.

Suchman 2014

Universities in the Knowledge Economy Work Package 1, 2016

David Turnbull, 2015

Research Accountabilities Discussion, Technologies in Practice 2014

Suchman 2015

Pernille Bjørn TiP Day 2014