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Rich Picture: The Role of the Facilitator

Berg, Tessa

Authors

Tessa Berg



Abstract

Information Systems for complex situations often fail to adequately deliver quality and suitability. One reason for this failure is an inability to identify comprehensive user requirements. Seldom do all stakeholders, especially those ‘invisible’ or ‘back room’ system users, have a voice when systems are designed. To improve upon this, system designers use rich pictures (RPs) as a diagrammatic means of identifying differing world views with the aim of creating shared understanding of the organisation. RPs have predominantly been used as freeform, unstructured tools with no commonly agreed syntax. This paper focuses only on the early stages of RP facilitation and is part of a large scale research project involving analysis on a substantial collection of RPs. Although facilitation is well documented in other domains there is a dearth of information and advice within academic literature on how to facilitate RP collaborative group drawing exercises. Thus, three styles of RP facilitation are presented showing how facilitator instruction and approach to delivery affects the initial picturing process and outcome. Results, suggest that the method one takes when instigating RP group work has profound influences on the group behaviour and the resulting RPs. From the researchers point of view it is hoped that this paper might act as a catalyst for debate concerning the role of the facilitator in collaborative diagramming.

Citation

Berg, T. (2015). Rich Picture: The Role of the Facilitator. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 28(1), 67-77. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-014-9318-z

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date Apr 22, 2014
Publication Date 2015-02
Deposit Date Sep 25, 2014
Print ISSN 1094-429X
Electronic ISSN 1573-9295
Publisher BMC
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 28
Issue 1
Pages 67-77
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-014-9318-z
Keywords Rich picture; Facilitation; Workshop; Best practice; Practitioner;
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/7206
Publisher URL http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11213-014-9318-z






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