Workshops
Picturing to Learn developed graphical collaborative workshops. Small groups of design and science students worked together for one and a half days to develop new approaches to the visual explanation of science. Science students and design/art students engaged in face-to-face conversations about how to best visually represent an idea. All benefited from the interaction — science students learned about design and communication, and design students learn about science.
Workshop I
Which compound has the higher boiling point?
4 design students from New York's School of Visual Arts (SVA) and 3 MIT students gathered as a group to collaborate on this particular question and discuss selected published science illustrations.
Workshop II
Why is the sky blue?
4 design students from SVA and 4 Harvard students gathered as a group and then in pairs to visually express this answer to this question and discuss the limitations of a textbook figure.