Sometimes I think about these sorts of working graphics as a sort of mental scaffolding. In the act of rendering data, or drawing our thoughts, we assemble a construct to hang other concepts from. So it’s a construct that can be extended or modified or disassembled and turned into something new.
National Digital Forum 2015
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Talking About Visual Thinking
presented by Chris McDowall
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#GLAM #SciComm #HistComm: Talking to Each Other and Making Sense
presented by Kate Hannah
Where we meet the public matters. A public lecture delivered by a visiting academic in a university lecture theatre is very different to that same lecture being delivered in a genuine public space, be that virtual or actual.