Winston,
Following Reinhard's argument...
Yes, with a little bit of on-the-job instructions for a functional
team of visual documentalists you can get a good result.
In workshops here in Mozambique I ritualized the installation of such
functional teams (in fact in all structured events bigger than a
small group meeting):
moderators/documentalists/steering team/research team
They are (except the moderators) all participants of the trainings or
workshops and do their job parallel to their general learning/working
job. Partly during the normal working times, partly in the short
breaks, focussed in half an hours work after the evening circle of
the plenary. They present either their products or their insights and
learning experiences during the morning news.
The visual documentalists use 1-2 cameras (e.g. Nikon Coolpix 995
does it nicely), a laptop, a printer and produce each evening a part
of the printed morning news, finishing their work (uploading,
actualizing title list, transferring fotos into the prestructured
layout of the daily news) during the last session.
Example of some of their special tasks are:
*Full documentation of flip-charts, pin-charts and any object that
gets symbolic meaning during the work (e.g. a tibetan bell) or part
of the broader environment which becomes relevant
*at least one foto of each working group/structure
*two portraits of each participant: one tele they take him/her in a
pose, the documentalist thinkgs to be typical ("my impression"), one
in his/her own pose ("his/her self-presentation").
I do not know how this would work in the northern countries, but the
juxta-position of the two perspectives and having a portrait of each
participant right on the title page and or back of the final report
produces lots of fun and learning.
To not interfere with the minimum principles and the law of OST
however, I prefer to have one external fotodocumentalist with much
the same tasks (or less or more, depends on what visual documentation
interests are declared by the working groups).
Of course, the OST-facilitator can not be the one, although it would
seems a rational thing from a non OST-point of resource-management.
Bernd
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On Sat, 14 Sep 2002 21:21:48 +0100, Visuelle Protokolle wrote:
>
>Winston wrote:
>
>... it allows greater freedom of individual expression, and to be
>less sterile than homogeneously aligned printed pages in 12 pt.
>Arial... The challenge is of course converting them into replicable
>"proceedings" ...
>
>dear Winston,
>
>there is so much you can do! In 2000 I was at an os in Wels
>Austria with Ingrid Ebeling, title "cooperation in consultant's
>networks". Of course I made my little simultaneous drawings of the
>process, but also made the participants draw themselves on
>posters.
>
>we had three students with us with a digital camera, a pc and a
>printer. They were busy the whole time to gather the written reports
>from the groups, but at thec same time took pictures of all my
>drawings which I always hang into a picture wall as soon as I had
>some, and of all the peoples drawings on the posters.
>
>With Ingrids last words they finished the printing of the os
>document, including texts and pictures, and handed a copy to
>everybody.
>
>They were students of economics and not specially trained, but
>came to an really acceptable result. So much more by the way than 12
>pt. Arial!
>
>Reinhard VISUELLE PROTOKOLLE Kuchenmueller & Dr. Stifel
>
>Munich Germany Tel: +49-89-202 447 48 http://www.visuelle-
>protokolle..de
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