The University of Vic Central University of Catalonia work the first edition of

The University of Vic Central University of Catalonia work the first edition of "Visual Thinking Workshop p er Communication and Innovation" at UVic Barcelona, starting in January. The course will be taught by graduate in graphic design, visual design expert and professor at UVic-UCC, Henry Naranjo.
As a person toluen engaged in the practice of visual thinking, tell us what the thinking is a form of visual graphical representation toluen of ideas in a simple and immediate, which uses the sketch and keywords as essential elements of expression and runs almost as fast as you think; but if we look at a broader scale, I basically assume an attitude towards life, in the sense that it involves a way of taking the world from the perspective of visual toluen understanding in all its complexity. It is mainly a way of thinking that gives relevance to the outline drawing simple synthesis and textual discourse usually written above. The truth is, in its essence is nothing new; is the most natural way of thinking of human beings, as did the primitive mental images toluen that spent thinking concepts; know that the first writings began with schematic picture that evolved into pictograms and then gave birth to the alphabet. Well, the complex world we live in has forced us to return to this essence and this is what characterizes the visual thinking in the search for efficient toluen and rapid communication comes to the synthesis and fundamental visual forms. But I would like to emphasize that we are primarily talking about thought processes for the production of knowledge and not just as a mere illustration or cartoon aesthetics. The visual thinking is therefore an act permanent cognitive perception, understanding and practical implementation, which connects the two cerebral hemispheres to promote thought and graphical representation.
What led you to visual thinking? I would say that the natural way to my training as a designer interested in the different processes toluen of visual communication, because I believe toluen that design is a way to anticipate the future; In this sense we can say that some visual designers, we help the materialization of thought. And so my research and professional interests revolve around the design of visual information, a broad concept that encompasses all these phenomena are related to the display, which happens to typography as a channeler toluen of the written word; infographics to translate complex; visualization of data for decision making and visual thinking and graphic facilitation to access knowledge and share it; at last I have always been linked to what might be called a kind of visual knowledge management, both from academia and the professional.
Do you think that the digital revolution has changed the way we think and we have forgotten the essence? toluen Obviously digital technologies have led to new ways of doing and thinking and have provided life has changed in many ways and this is positive, but what has happened is that before the incessant bombardment of images are somewhat "infoxicats" would like Alfons. Note that although the technology has allowed most people to create and share all types of images at once, these are mostly the only record of facts and rarely are part of processes of knowledge construction. But basically we are consumers or consuming images and we're doing it without a true visual alfabetidad. Is that we have been taught to think or perceive images in all its complexity? They literacy through written and in many areas still seems as if the text was more important; but paradoxically, we find that little has been what we have been taught to think to express toluen verbally. And if this happens with the written language, as we imagine that the deficit in the visual aspect. So yes I would say that we have forgotten the essence, especially because we are visual beings; images, diagrams and charts are much more universal and that is important in this globalized world, but also keep in mind that 90% of what reaches our brain is visual, and some studies show that humans process 60 thousand times images faster than text. Access to knowledge must necessarily have a strong visual component; and the strong emergence of Big Data has drawn attention to the need to visualize the huge amount of data we produce.
It is indisputable the importance of learning to think