Somewhere between an overwhelming preponderance of evidence and your assumptions...

Visual Solutions

It would be virtually impossible to solve the following problem without using pure visual thinking. Or in this case: eye-hand coordination and applying a marker to a substrate.

the problem: (from McKim's Experiences in Visual Thinking)
"With a continuous line that does not retrace draw the pattern below"(p12)

It took a lot of trial and error ( and I even tried to cheat, but could not find the solution in the book)....
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Deciphering the doodle

While listening to professors talk about the essentials of a good research paper - I was drawing. I was paying attention, but still drawing. It's not a picture of anything, but it may hint at my own process .... note the pillar-like object middle right. I think that would be my main research question. Judging by the "weight" of the structure above it, I may need to make it a little more robust!

Distributed cognition, or thinking outloud.

tacit knowledge +visual thinking + the "hunch" + reframing + emotional intelligence

 = thinking outloud

Releasing Tacit Knowledge with Quick Sketches

Test 1.
Have you ever tried to capture your "place and time"? Thinking about the past or future is very difficult and linear if you just try to project backwards (to recall memories of events, milestones) or project forwards (in anticipation of goals to be achieved). Events move in all directions, they reflect reality as much as personal fiction or misrepresentations as well as aspirations.

The sketch below (first in an iterative series), is an attempt to get a feel for my "landscape" in terms of time/age. ( The "marks" and lines in this sketch are not self-evident of course, but there should be a sense of "horizon" and structure. Note also that I've ignored the usual convention of moving from left-to-right to capture the passage of time).

"community engagement" as a diagram

(outliers shown in grey)

The process:

Visualizing "The Penguin and the Leviathan" Y. Benkler

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It's not doodling, it's EYE-STORMING

We've already coined the terms "brain" and "body" storming as techniques to quickly capture and communicate concepts and ideas we generate through cognition or through physical motion, respectively. What about sketching, or doodling? Some complex thoughts require visual exploration if we want to really understand them and share our understanding. Doodling is like noodling with a pencil. But it just does not sound right. It does not sound like what it is you do when you think. Yes, you juggle concepts, move constructs around in your head and so on, but it's obviously much more than that. Above all, it sounds more frivolous than it really is. So too with doodling. The process of moving a pencil (stylus, finger, etc) across a surface without-really-knowing-what-one-is-doing ( to borrow a phrase from Birger Sevaldson in a paper on visualization, 2011) is just as valuable and productive as mulling over a passage in a text book. So I propose we refer to this technique as EYE-STORMING. I'm not sure if the term is already out there, after a little googling, it does not seem be in anyone's lexicon. (yes, I get it, googling, noodling, doodling) But I don't like the name "google" either.