In Conversation with visual Sketchnote Artist Michele Braniff

Artist Michele Braniff created an incredible visual 'Sketchnote' of last month's 12th International r3.0 conference on "Braiding Bioregional Resilience and Regeneration". In this conversation, she shares her hand-drawn 'Sketchnote' – a graphic recording containing two full days worth of themes, ideas and impressions, rendered on a one and a half by four-meter page! 

As a visual thinker highly experienced in this practice, Michele brought her offerings to the GRACE LAB - the Grand River Action Collaboration and Engagement Lab confluence organised by Randy Sa'd of the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.  

As Michele explains, the sketchnote practice offers an experiential way to dance with a holistic systems view rendered on the page, bolstering playful and creative learning and engagement. As she observes, the visual representation fits well with a bioregional, place-based eco-holo-fractal way of thinking about who we are, where we are, and how we're connected.  Michele describes herself as a "whimsical artist seeking likeminded souls to re-wild people and planet with radical hospitality, kindness, curiosity and love, to create conditions for pollinators and other miracles."

Here is a flipbook of Michele's incredible Sketchnote: