what is visual notetaking?
visual notetaking* is the practice of capturing conversation in a visual way. the notetaker listens to the content of a discussion, lecture, workshop, panel, or meeting and illustrates live, creating a visual record of what was discussed as the event unfolds in real time.
these illustrations sum up and give structure to the primary points of a discussion in a way that supports people to retain what they have learnt, and make for a powerful memento of the day.
visual notes can be used to create materials such as posters; be disseminated on social media; or used in evaluation documents and/or reports to funders of your event.
*also referred to as graphic recording, graphic facilitation, scribing or sketchnoting
why visual notetaking?
visual notetaking allows tamara-jade to channel her passion for artistic expression into a practical learning tool that breaks the logic of dominant approaches of telling stories and recording histories, combining her two passions; education and illustration.
tamara-jade finds visual notetaking particularly important for marginalised groups whose histories, conversations and stories are prone to be erased historically, or distilled into singular, written narrative by those in power that diminishes our power.
tamara-jade operates on a sliding scale rate system, offering the lowest rates to groups of marginalised identities. this includes, but is not limited to, groups predominately made up of black people, people of colour, sex workers, queer and/or trans people, refugees and/or asylum seekers, and disabled people.
find out more info about the politics behind tamara-jade’s visual notetaking practice
“‘If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive’.”
how does it work?
there are two main approaches tamara-jade takes to this practice:
drawing live during an event - this allows people to process the conversation with her work, and interact with her interpretation of what is happening.
creating a record after an event, either from her own notes, an audio recording or video, or minutes taken from the event.
email through an enquiry to tamarajadekaz@gmail.com to discuss what approach works best for your event.
