Picturing to Learn developed graphical collaborative workshops. Small groups of design and science students worked together for one and a half days to develop new approaches to the visual explanation of science. Science students and design/art students engaged in face-to-face conversations about how to best visually represent an idea. All benefited from the interaction –– science students learned about design and communication, and design students learn about science.

Workshop I, Winter 2007
Which compound has the higher boiling point?
4 design students from New York’s School of Visual Arts (SVA) and 3 MIT students gathered as a group to collaborate on this particular question and discuss selected published science illustrations.

Workshop II, Spring 2008
Why is the sky blue?
4 design students from SVA and 4 Harvard students gathered as a group and then in pairs to visually express this answer to this question and discuss the limitations of a textbook figure.