Design for Social Change
One of the reasons I started StoryPreso was to add value into the lives of people. But that definitely cannot be limited to corporate who can indirectly make impacts in this world. The call is to use visual thinking for social change. Today many big organizations are involved in this initiative to make a world a better place.
Today, the front page of Bangalore Mirror, stared at me – EVE TEASING! And as I read, I could picture evil parading on the streets. Now, Veena (the person who stood up) has decided to make this an initiative to eradicate this social evil. Her campaign is called, “It’s not COMMON Anymore”. You can join the facebook page: It’s not common anymore
While the immediate concern is to stand up against such social evils; it is imperative that we understand the roots behind such actions!
We can pass laws, punish the offender, and create awareness – but that will only block the root of this behavior for sometime. Eventually the root may find other ways to satisfy its cravings.
The need is to educate people about what causes one to become an EVE TEASER. Who knows, the ones who today are against such an evil – may indeed be harboring thoughts that could one day lead them to more disastrous behaviors.
So I believe in using Visual thinking to communicate these thoughts, so real social change can take place.
In the process, I am learning, sharing and collaborating to make a difference.
Visual Thinking for Social Change
EVE-TEASING
Visual Summary
Media rules the world of communication today!
And that media is fast, visual and audio-visual.
So the habit of ‘reading’ – that beautiful wonderful journey of bringing words to life is slowly reducing, especially among the youth and the busy. Many methods have today sprung forward, to aid people in developing this habit.
One I really enjoy is the summary of a book – it gives me a clear idea of what a book is saying – and if I need to invest my time in reading it -for pleasure, enjoyment or learning!
But the amount of information that a summary can provide is pretty less – and it does not always stick to our memory.
Most of us know that the first step to understanding anything is to SEE. And that thought made me realize the value of visually seeing the summary of a book.
While we do Visual note-taking (VizN) to aid in capturing talks in conferences, meetings, strategic discussions, webinars and the like, we realized that it would be powerful to capture a book in a visual way.
So we have begun to work on what we call as “Sumpreso” – a visual summary of a book, talk, seminar or conference.
As a sample and as part of my Equip leadership training, I have made a visual summary of a book, a book by someone I love, admire and consider as my mentor – Dr. John C Maxwell.
That book is “Put your DREAM to the Test”
And like I earlier mentioned, the reason we are doing this – is to enable many to
- SEE the visual idea of the entire book
- REMEMBER the key ideas and messages
- USE it as a ready-reckoner to bring out the messages in the book
- GUIDE to reading and studying the book
This visual summary is in no-way a replacement for a book – for the contents of each book is vast, powerful and wonderful.
Please note that the copyright of the book is with the author and the publishers.
And here is the visual summary of the same (3 pages). Hope they will be useful to you and will guide you to pick up the book and read and apply it.
Now, that you have gone through the visual summary of the book, I suggest you buy it here:
