Visually Noted: WOW Festival

Visually Noted is back! Here are some maps I made on the Sunday of last month’s Women of the World Festival at the Southbank Centre. To start the day, I went to the WOW bites session featuring the Object campaign, anti-FGM project Daughters of Eve and Afri-Love‘s fabulous Lulu Kitololo, who talked about women using digital platforms for storytelling.

Next up, I caught a panel discussion called Tea with the Lady hosted by Bidisha and former editor of the Lady magazine Rachel Johnson, plus other special guests. The panel discussed the notion of being a ‘Lady’ in today’s society.

Finally I went to a panel about fashion and decoration hosted by Maggie Semple, Polly Vernon and Oonagh O’Hagan.

As you may have gathered, Mindful Maps is very pro-female voice. I hope to bring you many more visualisations about Women and Feminism in the near future :)

Ubele critical friends meeting

Earlier this month I recorded at a ‘critical friends’ meeting at SOAS; part of the early stages of the Ubele project (Ubele=Swahili for ‘the future’), which aims to tackle the question “How can we create the next generation of community-based leaders to help build independence and resilience within African-Caribbean communities in England?”. The project is headed up by Reos Partners.

The meeting explored and tested various dimensions of the project so far and the conversation was incredible. I won’t go over the main points here until we’ve posted them on the Reos Retrospective blog and shared them with participants, but here are some images from the recording:

The material generated will also further inform the illustrative identity and visual communications for the project which I am also collaborating with Reos Partners on. The handmade identity for the project was inspired by African craft and symbolism; the symbol in the logo below is an Adrinka symbol which signifies cooperation and interdependence and translates as BOA ME NA ME MMOA WO (‘help me and let me help you’).

For more information about the Ubele project contact Yvonne Field on field@reospartners.com.


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