One of the most valuable aspects of having a graphic recorder in the room during an event is the opportunity to host a Gallery Walk.
Karina in the midst of a Gallery Walk for Broto, 2019 (aka The Before Times). Photo: Michael & Suz Karchmer
What is a Gallery Walk? When a group takes time to intentionally reflect on graphic recordings, flip charts, posters, or other visuals around the room in a meeting. They can be guided by a facilitator walking the group through a high-level summary, or can be less structured with a time for people to wander around and observe.
Gallery Walks serve as an opportunity to:
Look for connections across sessions, presentations, small group conversations
Review ideas to be able to build consensus, move toward convergence, or look for gaps
Create space for reflection and integration of content
See the amount of thinking and work the group has accomplished – it feels good!
We all know working in virtual spaces is challenging for a lot of reasons – and translating engaging process design to a virtual space using tools like a Gallery Walk is no exception.
Today, I’d like to share three ways I’ve seen Gallery Walks leveraged to support virtual groups.
Create an Adobe Spark Page
- Spark makes it fast, easy, and fun to build your own custom web page in minutes! Drag and drop, and before you know it you’ve got key images, written highlights, and links to other resources all in one place to share right into that chat box!
Make a Google JamBoard Gallery
- Participants can collaborate in real-time adding sticky notes or text with ideas or reactions
- Other tools that are similar to JamBoard include Mural and Miro, which both require paid subscriptions while JamBoard is free, however not everyone can access Google platforms
Share a Google Doc
- As with JamBoard, participants can collaborate on the same page at the same time
- Also, free, again – not all organizations allow access to Google platforms
Once again, thank you from my heart and soul for your support, great senses of humor, brilliant minds, collaboration and what you're each doing to make the world a better place.
Cheers,
Where in the Virtual World is ConverSketch?
Adobe EduMAX 2020: If you didn’t click on the Adobe Spark link above, check it out here to see the images and time-lapse videos of real-time graphics I captured digitally last week for Adobe. AdobeMAX is happening this week and it’s free – check it out and get creative!
In the Studio: This month is full of studio illustration and video sketches, revisions, and refinements. A few of the topics getting the visual treatment: hiring barriers and biases for a national agency, strategic mapping for a wealth management company explaining their vision to a client, creating illustrations for a white paper on wildfire planning and mitigation at multiple scales, facilitating a workshop on regenerative foodscapes in the Americas, and more!
Ready to take a (Gallery) Walk on the Wild Side?