Raquel Benmergui

Photo taken in our neighbourhood in April 2019

Seminar participants getting a few shots of my work before lunch.

Using digital visual methods for graphic facilitation at an event or meeting offers quick & agile ways to support dialogue and engagement with the input from the talks given. You can quite quickly print colour copies of the visual captures. No need to spend time cleaning up photos of paper charts—just press send. Making impact with visual methods!

A little infodoodle I made about unique Finnish facts. 

Sitra hosted Vision Europe Dialogue where Vision Europe, a consortium of think tanks and foundations collaborating to address some of the most pressing public policy challenges facing Europe, came together in Helsinki.

Speakers did not have any powerpoint presentations, I visually captured their talks live and onsite and that process was shown on the screen behind the speakers in realtime.

In this example, I was working live trying to make the invisible visible.

Here is the visualisation of the hierarchy which emerged between doctors, healthcare staff & patients. I worked in cooperation with ArtSense.

Sitra hosted Vision Europe Dialogue where Vision Europe, a consortium of think tanks and foundations collaborating to address some of the most pressing public policy challenges facing Europe, came together in Helsinki.

Speakers did not have any powerpoint presentations, I visually captured their talks live and onsite and that process was shown on the screen behind the speakers in realtime.

Capturing & disseminating the liminal space and the experience of working with arts-based methods. A moment of floating & happiness captured with joy.

Sitra hosted Vision Europe Dialogue where Vision Europe, a consortium of think tanks and foundations collaborating to address some of the most pressing public policy challenges facing Europe, came together in Helsinki.

Speakers did not have any powerpoint presentations, I visually captured their talks live and onsite and that process was shown on the screen behind the speakers in realtime.

From Twinkle2015 in Tampere.

Raquel Benmergui at JOHDE-seminar. (Photo: Pirita Tolvanen / Luova Suomi)

Combining digital onsite photography and live digital graphic recording. 

Visually documenting prototypes of participants work at Innovation Camp—working on SDGs

Cooperating with ArtSense, Ihmistensote, Helsinki

Combining digital onsite photography and live digital graphic recording. 

Beyond Text, LUT Lahti, Finland

Participants in project using printed versions of my digital captures to reflect on their process.

Video capture of story capture...that becomes part of the story it is capturing

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Professor Allan Owens, University of Chester, gives a talk on arts-based methods. I support his talk by listening listen to him, pulling up images from the Beyond Text ebook that I feel would support his telling.

All the images were ones I had created by documenting our process over the last 3 years. We called this VJing—> Visual Jockeying. It was a very cool experience. Allan did not know what I was showing and never looked back. Trust.

Seminar, HAMK

Photo: Seppo Samuli

Visual Tidbit Takeaway from Nordic Business Forum 2014

Combining digital onsite photography and live digital graphic recording. 

The CBSS is the Council for the Baltic Sea States. I created a flexible visual identity for their Ministerial Forum on Alternative Care and Family Support in the Baltic Sea Region.

I graphically recorded the talk given by Jari Koskinen and then graphically facilitated the discussion of the 200 participants present.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lahti-uas

Mika Pantzar giving a fast and furious talk at JOHDE-seminar
Photo: Pirita Tolvanen / Luova Suomi

Taneli Tikka's talk on the future possibilities of digitalization.

Graphically facilitated an event organised by the Service Design Network of Finland, AlternativeFutures and Professor Birgit Mager.
http://www.service-design-network.org/map-of-missing-thoughts/ 

Photo: Jari Koskinen

Graphically recorded an event organised by the Service Design Network of Finland, AlternativeFutures and Professor Birgit Mager.
http://www.service-design-network.org/map-of-missing-thoughts/

Photo: Seppo Samuli

Sharing some of my own perceptions after Professor Lluìs Bonet's talk at JOHDE-seminar. (Photo: Pirita Tolvanen / Luova Suomi)

Visual Tidbit Takeaway from Nordic Business Forum 201

This is a weaving of 8 short presentations..

From the Leadership Seminar organized by Pipeline 11/2017

Taideylipoiston AVOIN KAMPUS järjesti seminaari mihin oli kutusttu eri taiteen alojen edustajia keskustelemaan taiteesta ja tulevaisuudesta.

This was the final image which summarised the work co-created during a set of 4-day workshops. Co-operated with Jari Kosknen and Tuomo Kuosa of AlternativeFutures.(Helsinki)

Photograph: Seppo Samuli

Visual tidbit takeaway from Nordic Business Forum 2014. Sir Ken Robinson asks us to consider how technology is making us more impatient.

I graphically recorded the talk given by Jari Koskinen and then graphically facilitated the discussion of the 200 participants present.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lahti-uas

Geri Smyth sang for us.

She reminded us of the importance education has in affecting change and the balance of power. 

In the end she had us singing with her.  

Her talk was a joy to record. 

Co-operating with Anne Pässilä and Allen Owens. Process Drama reflected back visually.

Teaching an intensive course on process drama at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki

Visual Tidbit Takeaway from Nordic Business Forum 2014. Jim Collins asks us this important question

Had a great time graphically facilitating and recording a conference in the field of Education at the University of Helsinki. To end the conference, participants added their own questions, which were written in different languages. http://blogs.helsinki.fi/intercultural-multicultural/

Capturing Anne Pässilä’s workshop Artful Inquiry, LUT Lahti Finland

Finland's first attempt to hack their budget!

Beyond Text, LUT Lahti

Thought-provoking and wonderful talk. Happy to have seen it live and make these notes!

A visual capture of Tuomas Syrjänen's talk at the Leadership Seminar organized by Pipelife.

I reflected visually on the talk I saw earlier this week at Ice Live 2014 in Tampere, Finland. Inspiring!

I did some graphic reflecting on Frans Johansson's talk the day after I heard it at ICE LIVE, Tampere Finland. Energetic speaker!

This image developed on a flipchart as I listened to the members in track 5 reflect on the papers and enter into discussion in an attempt to take away something tangible from the conference. 

This piece served as the backdrop for the panto (play) Rumpelstiltskin directed by Jamie Ann Mäkinen. (Tampere, Finland--January 8-11, 2014.)

Visual Tidbit Takeaway from Nordic Business Forum 2014

Photo: Kristine Matilainen / Luova Suomi

Mapping and conceptualizing my praxis. Long live masking tape and paper!

Graphic facilitation of EU Grundtvig Project. Day 1 (October 2, 2013)

We had a great hands-on session with the executive team of the TAIKA II project. For more information about this and the previous TAIKA project: http://www.taikahanke.fi/etusivu/

I graphically facilitated the Intercultural vs. Multicultural Education Conference held at the University of Helsinki. Michael's talk gave us a lot to think about and set the exploratory tone for the 2-day conference.

Smart, fast and energetic keynote! A joy to capture.

This is an example of how I use graphic facilitation in my own teaching at the University of Tampere, Finland.

Photo: Pirita Tolvanen / Luova Suomi

Mikko Kuitunen's talk about leadership at Pipelife's Leadership Seminar 11/2017

Graphically facilitated final discussions and thoughts of participants of Track 5. Nice to get concrete feedback.

Graphically facilitated final discussions and thoughts of participants of Track 5. Enjoyed having my sketches enter into the discussion and mingle with the participants' experiences. 

Photo: Pirita Tolvanen / Luova Suomi