Hello friends,
As visual practitioners we all believe in the power of visuals to create engagement and clarity.
At the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference <http://www.cop15.com/> we are the next 12 days using this power to help WWF create clarity around what is happening at the conference and what a good deal and agreement may look like.
We invite you to help us bring a lot of visuals into the negotiations and out to the public and hereby raise the understanding and prove the power of visuals.
"If we (the visual community) are what the world has been waiting for, what might be our unique contribution?"
As some of you remember from the IFVP Santa Fe and Chicago gatherings over 2 years I voiced something in the lines the above.
COP15 <http://www.cop15.com/> is happening the next 10 days - sealing a deal to prevent global warming beyond 2 degrees.
The world leaders will be finalizing an agreement which is to replace the Kyoto protocol and move the world closer to dealing constructively with some of the growing challenges we are facing in terms of the present and future climate changes.
5 visual thinkers and practitioners present inside COP15 with WWF
We are a group of 5 visual thinkers and practitioners who over the next 12 days will be present at the climate negotiations in Copenhagen ( <http://www.cop15.com/> www.cop15.com). We have been invited to join WWF international in their work in getting a fair deal.
Building on success in November Barcelona Climate Talks
In November 2009 we had the chance to do a pilot with WWF. We were involved in a pre-meeting called the Barcelona Climate Talks. Here we reached out to a handful of visual thinkers and practitioners and engaged in a pilot project, where we tried to bring in the global voices to visualize core concepts and big ideas of the climate talks - seen from the perspective of WWF ) You can se most of the Barcelona Climate Talks work on SlideShare and our Blog).
At Copenhagen we are now trying to step up this effort. We want to involve as many visual thinkers and practitioners from around the world as possible.
We hope you would like to join in one way or the other.
The core purpose for us at COP15
- To spread what happens inside the negotiations out to the public via the media and various social media (creating attention and awareness).
- To inspire / influence the delegates within the negotiations with "visual vitamins" and "food for thought".
- To support the WWF team in getting clarity around main messages and processes.
Furthermore we will be working with these two supporting purposes:
- To spread what happens inside COP15 to a global network of visual practitioners (and other audiences interested in the field (visual facilitation) and the topic (climate negotiations / climate challenges and global warming).
- To engage the visual community in making visual solutions to WWF and a wider public.
any way you can.
Great need for global clarity and creating shared pictures
WWF (and the negotiators) are in need of clear messaging and inspiring provoking and educating visuals which can help negotiators and the public in understanding what is at stake and what is a possible future agreement.
We hope you will find it inspiring to follow the work inside, and bring in the skills we have.
Your contribution: Get online - look at challenges listed - upload your visual solutions
As a platform to handle all this we have created a Ning (a social network site, where everyone can contribute and see each others contribution). Please go to: http://cop15visualised.ning.
- Sign in if you already have a profile.
- Create a profile if a Ning is new to you.
From today Peter will be concentrating on keeping those of you who want to engage updated and involved, providing assignments / challenges which you can visualize. Peter will help you get it online and help WWF get access to use what you create.
There is more information on the site:
- How the visuals can be used (creative commons 3.0)
- How WWF can use what is produced
- How you can use it
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