Kelvy Bird

Today¿s great challenges call us to (re)arrange our interior dimensions to more adequately meet current, outer realities. Working from the inside out, by unpacking her own professional experience over thirty years, Kelvy Bird serves up generative scribing as one practice to aid with this larger cultural and personal transition.Scribing is a visual practice where an artist maps out ideas while people talk and can see the drawing unfold in front of their eyes. The drawing establishes connections within content, aids with insight, and supports decision-making. It¿s essentially a language that weaves words and pictures to facilitate group learning and cultural memory.¿Generative scribing¿ advances this practice by extending the range of the practitioner to an entire ecosystem and drawing with an attunement to energy. A generative scribe calls particular attention to an emerging reality that is brought to life by, and for, the social field in which it¿s created. This book is aimed at current and future scribes, with an aim to expand the possibility and impact of their efforts. It is for a broader audience, too, for those whose ¿pens¿ take shape as kitchen utensils, gardening rakes, community leagues, city planning, national policy-making¿you name it. This is a book for anyone who cares about how we exist together as human beings, for anyone who wants to explore their interior functioning, for anyone who seeks to approach the world anew.

A Social Art of the 21st Century

Generative Scribing

Scribing - the practice of visually mapping a group's content in real time, as people talk - is increasingly used across sectors and around the globe to bring human ideas and interaction alive through words and images, thus activating the social field in a unique and participatory way.Scribing is an evolving art form whose potential is only just beginning to be fully realized. This book will provide a much needed framework for scribing and, on a larger level, for seeing possibilities of connecting inner and outer lives, art and the social realm.

Kelvy Bird

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