One of the things I really love at work is when I get out the Post-it notes, flip charts and Sharpies. I carry them around in a small toolbox ready for any opportunity to hold a workshop. They come into their own when we need to map a process and that's when you’ll see me … Continue reading A simple process
When maps are not good enough
Sometimes seeing is not believing. I am thinking of when maps are presented to show the results of an election. Take the 2017 UK parliamentary election for example. A standard map projection of the UK, the type we are used to seeing in any atlas, shows England almost entirely Conservative blue. Ignoring the other parties … Continue reading When maps are not good enough
Unfolding plans 133 – summit else
The motorcycle outriders held the traffic up at Thinford roundabout. Their blue lights cut through the dank morning air. Helicopters hovered above as the threat level was set at high. The limousines with their blacked out windows sped through the empty roads before screeching to a halt outside the Educational Development Centre. The delegates hurried … Continue reading Unfolding plans 133 – summit else
A billion maps
Here we are on planet earth, a rock suspended in space and time, hurtling around the sun at more than sixty thousand miles per hour, racing through the universe at God knows what speed and relative to what? Who knows? And on this earth there are six or seven or eight billion people, who can … Continue reading A billion maps
The Age of Maps
There are some changes in the way that you work that you really notice and there are others that just seem to creep up on you. When I started my first job, computers were very rare, with just the odd green screen on a counter to handle transactional processing. Eventually they became much more common, … Continue reading The Age of Maps
Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker 