Workshops
Expand your engagement toolkit!
Graphic recording—also referred to as visual note-taking or graphic facilitation—involves capturing discussions, ideas, and concepts in real-time through images, sketches, and words. It's not only about creating aesthetically pleasing visuals but also about distilling complex information into easily digestible, more memorable formats.
These live drawings are quick and adaptable, and bring the potential to create more nimble, and inclusive planning engagement practices. As cities continue to change and increase in complexity, graphic recording is a valuable addition to the urban planning toolkit.
If you are interested in learning graphic recording, or expanding your visual skills, join our mailing list to learn about upcoming workshops. To inquire about a custom training workshop, please contact us here.
About your Instructors
Kristen Elkow (she/her), Principal, Elk Community Planning and Design
Kristen is passionate about visualizing people’s ideas, reframing technical materials to reach new audiences, and building collaborative solutions to community challenges. Her work is informed by her background as an artist, and complementary training in graphic facilitation, community engagement, urban design, city planning, and communication design. She has a wide range of experiences developing creative visuals and as a graphic facilitator for municipal clients, First Nations, non-profits, youth, Indigenous stakeholders, and technical experts.
Kristen is registered with the Planning Institute of British Columbia (MCIP, RPP), has a Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning from Toronto Metropolitan University, a Bachelor of Science from University of Manitoba, and a Masters of Urban Design from the University of British Columbia.
Erick Villagomez (he/him), Part-time Lecturer, University of British Columbia School of Community and Regional Planning; Principal, Mētis Design-Build
Erick Villagomez is an educator, independent researcher and designer with academic and professional interests in human settlements at all scales. He has been teaching Interior Design at Kwantlen Polytechnic since 2012, and is a Part-time Lecturer at the UBC’s School of School of Community and Regional Planning, where he teaches a number of graduate and undergraduate courses focused on settlements and graphic representation.
Erick is also the founding principal of Mētis Design-Build—a practice that works on diverse projects ranging from small-scale architecture and urban design consulting to illustration and urban cartography. Additionally, he is the Editor-in-Chief of Spacing Vancouver. His research, consulting and writing have influenced patterns of urban development locally and abroad—contributing to the adoption of ‘green’ urban design processes, plans, codes, standards, guidelines and prototypes.
