It’s All About the Community
September 17, 2007 – 5:20 pm |
While we’ve certainly been talking a lot about the conference, the goal of VizThink is to create a global, sustainable community of visual thinkers with the conference as a launch.
However, lots of community work is already been done at a grass roots level, and our next facilitator, Ryan Coleman, is a great example. |
In his role as CTO & co-founder of Toronto based Clay Tablet Technologies it would seem Ryan Coleman is far removed from his days in Sheridan College’s Media Arts program. Ryan’s Visual Thinking effort manifests itself most often in a technical context as he maps out application architectures, information architectures or user interface wireframes. However, as his primary business revolves around the globalization and translation of content and concepts Ryan continues to see the immediate power of being able to explain an idea or solution without requiring the use of written or spoken language.
In February of this year Ryan created the first regional VizThink group to help foster a Visual Thinking community within Toronto. Leveraging the experience he gained through participating, and later organizing events, in Toronto’s BarCamp community Ryan took the VizThink event from a core group of 15 or so people to approaching 50 at the most recent event.
