In the global community

The panorama of a global event is special because it brings graphic recorders and facilitators from all parts of the world and Drawnalism always wants to be part of that.

And so to the Global Visual Thinking Summit at Bilbao in the Basque country of Spain.

Below the obvious horizon line the dimensions of the multiday event were as deep as they were wide. Many layers of the global visual thinking business and craft were revealed beginning with two keynote plenaries on cross cultural communications, vital to a global trade.

Joana Sell and Ida Castiglione spoke and signposted to a host of notable landmarks. All were applicable whether visual practitioners have the luxury of onsite work with clients and partners or, instead facilitate and record from distance.

Both speakers addressed delegates with impact from insight and experience and close attention to the cultural sensitivities we all face in our working lives. Neither speaker shied away from discussing the real world challenges of health, wealth, economics or politics to the way we act for and with our partners, clients and customers and wherever in the world we are.

Joana Sell and Ida Castiglione on Intercultural communication at GVST 2022 in Bilbao, Spain - By Drawnalism and Drawnalism Europe Ltd

The GVST summit itself was designed to be hybrid - and the careful attention to bringing the insight and contribution of digital delegates into the event space and every event session was admirable. You can see some of the fuller richness of the event captured in the Bilbao Diaries video which are linked below. Our thanks for this to the European Visual Practitioners of whom Drawnalism has been a long time and founder member.

Beyond the plenary keynotes there were many creative and interactive sessions as you’d expect from a global gathering of facilitators and visualisers - personal highlights included a debut drawing live at The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao ( more of that another time! )

Over the four days other notable speakers were Nancy Rademaker on Digital Futures ( which you can see in the second graphic recording below ).

Nancy Rademaker on Digital Futures at GVST 2022 in Bilbao, Spain - By Drawnalism and Drawnalism Europe Ltd

Jackson Araujo and Lisa Lang spoke on Sustainable Value Creation which is a huge, emerging area reflecting the global challenge to reallocate resources to meet the challenge of climate change.

Lisa Lang on Sustainable Value Creation on Digital Futures at GVST 2022 in Bilbao, Spain - By Drawnalism and Drawnalism Europe Ltd

Our thanks to Miryam Artola Dendaluce and the whole team of Muxote Potolo Bat SL for the onsite Bilbao organisation and collaborators from across the world including Elena Urizar, Christina Elise Hemmingsen, Mara Callaert, Sven Retoré, Sabine Soeder, Mira Bangel, José Luis Anzizar, IFVP - International Forum of Visual Practitioners, European Visual Practitioners, Neuland GmbH & Co and very many more!)

So, where do we meet again in 2024?