The re-thinking visual intelligence table will be built on an art experience, a self-portrait exercise, and a reflection on signature strength, based on the positive psychology approach. The setting will be organized to create a space, very much like a studio situation. This ground setting will be the basis to probe and think about what kind of expeditions that help us fundamentally re-think our visual intelligence can be developed from there. Initial ideas include:
- Creating more learning opportunities for personal growth, purpose or core strength as part of education. How can we encourage people to ask and reflect on who we are as a person, and how we contribute to our social and environmental situation? Imagine if we create a learning field as a physical situation, as place making, where we come together, exchange and deepen our understanding, as we enter a deep dialogue. Such a place would create a kind of learning with transformational effects. It means we leave the room changed.
- Developing ideas and initiatives around how to use the concept of 'space' to challenge the usual learning setting. Could we probe and experiment with how the quality of dialogue changes if it's based in a visual setting? We could explore whether we model our arguments differently as we build on what we can observe and describe. Can we make our thinking more tangible as the visuals and artworks reveal not only information, but also our emotions and personal prejudices?
- Develop possible ideas to bring visual thinking, self-reflection and place making to all kind of education fields, such as schools, business training programs or building organisations. Would doing this change move interaction towards more openness, dialogue and alignment? As Esko Kilpi says in his article "Work as forming the future, work as art": "What is needed, is to see the broken mirrors, the failed sense making systems we have, and to create an alternative approach, building on the significance of creative small moves in everyday life. It would mean appreciating the enormous potential of moments where people are more deeply engaged and more present in their unique life. Life is the most profound work of art!"
- Learning a repertoire to navigate in open situations. Can we offer an education approach to better steer situations where we might feel lost? In the creative process uncertainty is a very valuable resource. The organizational thinker Otto Scharmer describes that in his theory U. "Not before, he argues, you have downloaded (let go) what you acknowledge as a known solution, you can create something new." Therefore, the repertoire to move forward if we feel stuck and lost, is a matter of experienced based training so that this repertoire becomes a second skin. In this situation we would no longer have to think what we do, we would act as a conductor and guide ourselves until a real new idea emerges. Such an approach could be very impactful for entrepreneurship education.
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INPUT REQUEST #5: Action Options
- What do you think of the potential action options presented?
- What additional action options or critical questions are missing, and that you would like to have address in this dialogue?
Please use the comments section to discuss.