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Vivid Visual Notes: Karina Mullen at TEDxFoCo

4,047 views · Published 18 October 2012 · 8:27 · Indexed 23 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2012 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Human beings are visual beings. Shared understanding, new ideas, plans and complex systems are illuminated through the power of pictures -- they just make sense! Which is why Karina Mullen fell in love with graphic recording: using hand-drawn pictures and text to capture and synthesize key ideas from presentations, meetings, and conversations in real-time on an enormous piece of paper.

CSU Graduate student and graphic recorder by day, Karina is an urban homesteader and surrogate duck mother by evening (she's also a morning person). As a Colorado native, Karina's love for art and the natural world is reflected in her research focusing on visual, participatory methods of communicating about climate change.

Karina will share why doodling is really a good thing, that anyone can draw (even you!) and the power of pictures to engage individuals, groups, businesses and build a better world.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

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