
Some of the illustrations for the new Kinnford Consulting website. ‘…bringing creative facilitation & social science insight and real-world experience to your complex organisational and policy challenges’. Visit the site for more.

Some of the illustrations for the new Kinnford Consulting website. ‘…bringing creative facilitation & social science insight and real-world experience to your complex organisational and policy challenges’. Visit the site for more.
Democracy Co – deliberative democracy experts – break new ground delivering an online Citizens’ Jury at the height of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Unrealistic ‘sheeple‘, a reality check from Sue Tomat, GumLeafGreen. See the other reality checks – and more – here.
Each illustrating job often involves getting a glimpse into a valuable, innovative and creative project. Helen Palmer, creator of Self unLimited, outlined her Folkscape image and after a couple of drafts this is how it turned out.
To help understand the picture I asked Helen some questions:
What is Folkscape?
It’s a place – a social place and a digital place where people on Self unLimited adventures can meet, share, learn and support each other.
What’s Self unLimited?
It’s an idea and an approach for taking charge about your own experience of work. You don’t have to be self-employed to be in charge and making decisions that affect you now and in the future. It’s for people who are frustrated about work, it’s for people wondering if they need to think differently about work with a future of big changes like AI and robotics.
https://www.be-selfunlimited.com/about-self-unlimited/
The people all have letters on their tops, what does that mean?
The letters on people’s tops come from Self unLimited logo. Each of these people is making their own version of being Self unLimited. The guy wearing the ‘M’ is Mike – he’s in charge of Mike unLimited – which is his own workscape – the place where he makes choices about how he wants to navigate his experience of work.
The scene is a little mysterious, as if the people have just stumbled on a special place, and off in the distance there appears to be more… what is going on?!
Off in the distance are some special places for group learning experiences. People pay to access these – so that’s why they aren’t in the free open space you see most prominent in this picture. https://www.be-selfunlimited.com/learning-options/
250 Ideas for Engaging Children and Young People a forthcoming e-book by Moira Deslandes, Moira Deslandes Consulting. A few of the cartoon illustrations.
A short 11 second animation to demonstrate an idea.
One of the Municipal Association of Victoria’s annual conferences is its national two day The Future of Communities: Power to the People conference. I was there as cartoonist, listening and trying to get as much of the sessions into cartoons as I could. The cartoon above does sum up my impression of the conference. At first it didn’t have the ‘Woohoo!’ Without it the the cartoon seemed to say ‘Oh oh, what have we done?’; that wasn’t what I saw. Adding the ‘Woohoo!’ DOES express what the 250 upbeat and enthusiastic conference participants and presenters showed over the two days. It was a great experience!
The event was facilitated by the quite amazing Peter Kenyon, director of The Bank of Ideas. The complete set of cartoons can be found on their Facebook page. Here are a few of the cartoons…