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The
History and Evolution of the
Graphic Facilitation / Recording Field
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Christina Merkley
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Ancient
History of the Arts
"Graphic
Recorders are modern-day cave artists, visionaries, scribes,
teachers, learners, illuminators and historians … all keepers
of the precious written word and imaginings of voices and
hearts. Our practice
has roots in ancient traditions of paying attention, reflecting,
recording and ‘remembering for the future'. We help bring ideas forward, help collaboration,
help direct the 'light'to the individual
and the collective wisdom in this world."
Leslie Salmon-Zhu, as quoted by Mary Brake in her “Making
the Magic Happen” article,
Facilitation News, Spring 99
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The
history of the use of visuals or graphics in settings where people
gather together is an ancient one, borne out by the hieroglyphics
and cave drawings of old. For eons, human beings have tapped into the
enormous power of drawing to communicate.
The cliché “a picture is worth a thousand words” is a cliché
for a simple reason: its true! And, if a picture is worth a thousand words,
then a visual metaphor is worth a thousand pictures!
Few
things communicate feeling, tone, and directive as much as a well-composed
image loaded with shared meaning and sub-text.
Imagery as a communication aid worked for our early ancestors
and it continues to work for us now in our modern world.
In fact, with the rise of modern technology, the simple
hand-drawn graphic can bring a measure of calm and humanity that
is sorely needed in our fast-paced, hyper computerized world.
Adding a ‘high touch’ element to a high
tech world.
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“Since
Gutenberg and the onset of typewriters, publishing houses,
and telecommunications, the job of providing cultural group
memories and preserving core imagery has widened into an
industry. In historical terms, we are now at a point
where information itself has become such a vast frontier
that charting a path across it, or reflecting that path
for another, is a dizzying task.
People are in great need of tools, technologies and
frameworks for thinking which can hold information faithfully
and facilitate its assimilation for successful applications.”
David
Sibbet, A Brief History of Group Visuals,
I See What You Mean
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