Sunni Brown “Storm the Games: Bringing on the Doodle Revolution”
“Place a pencil and pad near the telephone of any human of more than primeval intelligence and the bet is ten to one that he’ll doodle during his next telephone call.” So said Steven Arundel, author of Everybody’s Pixillated, in 1937 and not much has changed since then. Virtually all humans doodle once they have the physical tools, but what most of us don’t realize is that doodling is neither dilly-dallying nor pointless motion. The act of doodling engages all three of the major cognitive learning modes in our brains. Doodling, therefore, is a skill that should be strategically honed and intentionally capitalized upon. In this session, Sunni will present some of the latest research on doodling and the brain and then we’ll all work together to apply “the Doodle” using games from the book Gamestorming, coming out in July of this year.
This event is presented by VizThink NYC.
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Thursday, June 24
6:30–8:30PM
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Location
MFA Interaction Design Department
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132 W 21st Street, 6 Floor
New York City
About the Speaker
Sunni Brown is best known for her large-scale graphic recordings and live content visualizations at all kinds of meetings and events. But she is also the leader of The Doodle Revolution - a growing effort to debunk the myth that doodling is a distraction. Using common sense, experience and neuroscience, Sunni is setting out to prove that to doodle is to ignite your whole mind. Sunni is a business owner, author, and information designer, and her consultancy, BrightSpot I.D., specializes in visual thinking and the broad range of its applications. She was trained in graphic recording and facilitation at The Grove Consultants International, a San Francisco-based company that pioneered the use of large-scale visuals in business settings. She is currently an Associate of The Grove, a freelance consultant for XPLANE - the visual thinking company - and an Associate of Alphachimp Studios. She is also co-Founder of VizThink Austin, one of the oldest visual thinking communities in the United States. Sunni presents regularly on the topics of graphic facilitation, graphic recording and visual thinking and the brain, and is also one really funny lady.
About VizThink NYC
VizThink is the global community for visual thinkers - In addition to our semi-annunal conferences and workshop series we also actively encourage and support the development of the global community outside of our regular events. VizThink NYC is the greater New York City local group who create hands-on events through the dedication of volunteer organizers and generous event partners.
