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The EVP Purpose
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EVP News
Visual Thinking Global Summit
27–30 July 2022 in Bilbao, Spain
After Euviz 2014 and Euviz 2018 this year has another important gathering of visual practitioners in Europe: the Visual Thinking Global Summit will be held in Bilbao from July 27th to 30th.
This summit will take place on site & also online in hybrid format with the moto: Shake it to shape it!
By drawing inspiration from outside our field of practice the summit will look to offer a framework for collaborative work, to give innovative and creative answers, without closed answers. Unfolding the enormous potential offered by Visual Thinking, the Visual Language to our organizational, social, economic, cultural and educational ecosystems.
The summit is organized by by Muxote Potolo Bat SL alongside an international team of volunteers, in collaboration with IFVP and we are supporting it as the European Community of Visual Practitioners.
See you in Bilbao?
Find more information about the program and register here.
Update: The pre-summit schedule is here! Discover the workshops offered before the official conference.
Visual: Visual Thinking Global Summit
EVP Friday Cocktails
On the first or second Friday of every month EVP hosts “Friday Cocktails,” a regular, relaxed hang-out to connect, co-learn and co-create with other practitioners. It’s Friday afternoon, time to relax, draw and have a laugh!
It is EVP Coctail time again on Friday 3rd of June!
We are looking forward to seeing you.
Register here for the Cocktail!
Visual: Brechtje Hendricks
Welcome New Core Team Members
EVP Community Members volunteered at the World Clean Up conference
Country leaders, team members, partners, supporters, and believers from around the globe were present at the World Clean Up Conference from 28-31 january 2021.
World Cleanup Day is one of the biggest civic movements of our time, uniting 180 countries across the world for a cleaner planet. As an international the EVP community is proud to support the WCU.
Visual: Sandra Bach
12 february 2021
The EVP Community Dance
Especially for the EVP Online Meetup on 21 November 2021, Dannie Volkert (Germany) created a special choreography. To the tones of Brenda Fassie’s Vulindlela the whole Community danced together. An unforgettable moment!
Visual: Malte von Tiesenhausen
21 november 2020
EVP Online Circus Meetup 2020
In the summer of 2020, 9 community members from 8 different countries joined forces for the second online EVP Meetup. More than 120 community members joined on 21 November 2021 to network, co-create and learn together. Within the circus theme, the focus was on fun and creativity. But also answers were sought and found to face the COVID 19 crisis as a Visual Practitioner.
Relive the EVP Online Meetup Circus
Visual: Sandra Bach
22 November 2020
The New Core Team 2021
A group of 7 voluntary members take responsability in the EVP Core Team.
- Keeping the shared vision alive
- Overlooking community (supporting local meetups, online
meetups, other community gatherings…) - Overlooking communications
- Maintaining relationship with IFVP and international organizations
- Finding a structure fit for the community needs
- Maintaining the organization (legal status, finances…)
- …
The Core Team 2020-2021: Sandra Bach (Germany), Maaike Borsboom (The Netherlands), Andy de Vale (UK), Karl Mortier (Belgium), Jens Nordmann (Germany), Claudia Steinau (Switzerland), Elaine Vitikainen (Finland)
Visual: Karl Mortier
9 September 2020
EVP Virtual Vienna
On the 2n May 2020, in virtual Vienna, EVP made history by setting up the first ever online event “Visual Story Telling”. David Sibbet was the keynote. Besides the expertise and inspiring explanation of David, the communicty worked on the 3 pillars of online meetups and EVP in particular.
In a spinoff 3 groups of volunteers continued this work the weeks and months after Virtual Vienna:
- Co-creation
- Co-Learning
- Networking
Visual: Bea Broskova
6 May, 2020
THE JOURNEY OF EVP
This video shows the history of EVP and is an excellent way to get introduced to the community of European Visual Practitioners. Our journey started in Berlin and continued via Rome, Brussels, Paris, Warsaw, Madrid, Hamburg, Prague and Stockholm to Vienna.
Visual: Filippo Buzzini
2 May, 2020
We had wonderful talks with wonderful people: Esther Loubradou, Brechtje Hendriks & Eveline Mos are willing to be part of the core team and give their energy, creativity and commitment to the community of European Visual Practitioners. Together with Maaike Borsboom, Jens Nordmann, Claudia Steinau and Any de Vale they form the new EVP core team 2021/2022.
We hope you are all as excited with their nomination as we are. You can always send us a private message if you have other thoughts.
Visual: Jens Nordmann