What is
Think(in)visual
communication
conference about?

Thinking in visual communication
When did people start using visual representations for their thoughts? Let it remain a mystery.
The examples of figurative expression date 32,000 years back and come from the Cro-Magnon epoch. Yet, they are still readable to us, and don’t seem much different from the visual messages we create today. This makes us think the visual form remains a most accessible and universal means of communication across cultures and centuries. Has the role of the visual communication changed in our contemporary shrinking multi-culture multi-lingual world? Having expanded our cognitive abilities so much, why do we still find the visual expression most efficient? Are we aware of limitations our brains have?

Conference from 12th till 13th December 2014
The European National Institutes for Culture in Warsaw (EUNIC) in cooperation with National Audio-Visual Institute (NInA), Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technologies (PJIIT) and the Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) in Katowice have a pleasure to invite the international community of professionals and students from different disciplines, such as designers, scientists, artists and philosophers, as well as everyone interested in exchanging knowledge on visual communication, to participate in the ‘Thinking in visual communication’ conference. The focus of the 2-day conference, following three days of workshops, will be the broad field of: intellectual processes behind visual language, theoretical and experimental methods of graphic design problem-solving, teaching thinking in design and creative processing. The general subject: thinking in visual communication has been divided into four groups of various topics:
1. participate in thinking – designing with user-generated content, user influence on designer’s brain
2. abilities of our brains
3. visualization of thinking
4. dead-ends in design thinking.

workshops from 9th till 11th December
The 3 days of workshops are intended to provide participants with tools useful in constructing visual communicates facilitating the learning process (workshop for children), promoting knowledge (workshops for scientist, designers and culture animators), help deliver complex information in a smart visual package (workshop for designers on augmented reality) and make it all both beautiful and accessible for users (‘write and see your minds’ workshop).

exhibition from 11th till 31th December
A one-month visual presentation of intellectual processes behind design projects. Students’ posters will teach us about class assignments’ context reflecting user goals and tasks, technology systems, business pro- cesses. The posters will present the tasks-flow and intellectual processing behind final results of projects.
EUNIC stands for European Union National Institutes for Culture. It is a partnership and network of cultural institutes and cultural departments of the European Union countries’ embassies.
EUNIC’s mission is to promote European values and to contribute to cultural diversity inside and outside of the EU through collaboration between European cultural institutes.
EUNIC projects contribute to connecting culture with such key areas as development, ecology, conflict prevention and conflict resolution. The projects also foster innovation and development of creative economies.
EUNIC has 31 members from 26 countries, represented in over 150 countries with more than 2,000 branches and thousands of local partners. The members work in the arts, language, youth, education, science, intercultural dialogue and development sectors. On the local level, EUNIC members join together in clusters to collaborate on common projects and initiatives.
EUNIC-Warszawa has been a thriving cluster since its start in 2007. The cluster cooperates with over 50 different local, regional and national institutions, in a big variety of cultural, social and educational projects. The combined action, knowledge and experience of 17 full members, 8 associated members and over a dozen regular guests result in around 8 common projects each year in and outside the city of Warsaw.

Brody Neuenschwander

Brody Neuenschwander http://www.brodyneuenschwander.com/ was born in Houston, Texas in 1958. He studied art history at Princeton University and the Courtauld Institute, London, receiving his PhD in 1986. He studied calligraphy at the Roehampton Institute under Ann Camp and then became assistant to Donald Jackson. Since 1988, he has worked as a free-lance calligrapher, first in the UK and now in Bruges, Belgium. Clients have included the US, UK, and Belgian governments, the BBC, Time-Life Books, and the Royal Mail. He has worked with director Peter Greenaway on several films, including Prospero’s Books and The Pillow Book. Starting around 1995, Brody’s work has evolved into a confrontation with conceptual art; abstract calligraphy is brought into contact with texts and images that investigate the nature of language and the tension between text and image. Brody has received several awards, including the D&AD Silver Award in 2000 and the Belle Lettere Award in 1997.

Program

Martin van Dijk
Cultural attaché

Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
ul. Kawalerii 10
00-468 Warsaw / Poland

Tel. +48 22 5591253
www.nlembassy.pl
www.fb.com/nlembassypl

José Carlos Costa Dias
Representante do Camões em Varsóvia e em Lublin
Camões Institute
Embassy of Portugal in Warsaw

ul. Ateńska 37
03-978 Warsaw / Poland

Tel. +48 22 511 10 11
jccostadias@cvc.instituto-camoes.pl
www.ambasada-portugalii.pl

Ewa Satalecka
Curator
ewasatalecka@ewasatalecka.a4.pl

Jacek Mrowczyk
Curator's consultant

Katarzyna Madry
Mobile: +48 668 397 447
office.tivc@gmail.com

Visual identity
Hanna Grabowska, Hanna Stano


Web design
fellas,creativeminded