Cadmus (Nov 2021)
Art + Science + Policy: Info-Murals Help Make Sense of Wicked Problems
Abstract
To manage complexity in the modern world requires large-scale visual language diagrams that are called “information murals.” These murals present the science involved in major global and local issues; describe the policies that may respond to these challenges; and integrate the communication using the arts of diagramming and illustration on a wall-size scale. This article presents numerous examples from business, international task force and government projects. It also describes how information murals can help analytic and decision-making groups accomplish their missions. The author suggests that information murals are the best way to address the difficult, messy and massively wicked problems that decision-makers face every day. He shows some education and training possibilities of the murals and also suggests that the information murals can emerge at times as a new aesthetic genre for the world of fine art.
