How to make contextual visuals based on teamwork, themes and bikablo® icons.
As an agile & visual coach I am still humbled about the positive impact our visualisation methods make on knowledge workers.
The bikablo technique features a fast, unique learning experience that works in your office location and has a great impact – the Symbol Safari. So what is the Symbol Safari?? read on..
The Symbol Safari is an activity that engages a team to create incrementally build a complex visual metaphor for a specific theme.
It is a great introduction with working with a marker and also using visuals in a team to create meaning out of complexity, with the help of bikablo® icons.
Introducing working on the wall, using the marker and the safari instructions
Our Safari Map - the journey to exploring visualisation
Selecting Icons to associate with their word-storming around a central theme.
The teams draw and then we celebrate our new visual skills with a showcase.
The celebration showcase at the end is the opportunity for everyone to share their themes and the key visuals they select to represent it. We often find groups now have a deeper understanding of the topic, through the discussion and visualisation.
