Podcast appearances and mentions of Nick Sousanis

Hi Everyone.Brianne and I are extra excited to share our conversation with Dr. Nick Sousanis. He is an award winning comics author, artist, mathematician, and an Associate Professor Humanities and Liberal Arts. We talked about his beautiful creation, Unflattening, his "origin story," as well as his journey to make Unflattening the focus of his doctoral studies and eventually a published book. If you want to learn more about Dr. Sousanis be visit his website and check out the comic-focused minor and certificate he leads at San Francisco State. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed spending time with Nick.With joyful anticipation,Carey and Brianne

Sarah Firth is a cartoonist, artist, writer, speaker, and graphic recorder who has been published extensively in Australia and overseas. Her work has appeared in the Eisner Award winning anthology, Drawing Power, and the Ledger Award winning anthology, Neither Here Nor Hair. She is also a founding member of Graphic Recorders Australia, a not-for-profit professional association that supports the Graphic Recording community in Australia. Her debut graphic novel “Eventually Everything Connects” is available now. James Baker sits down with Sarah Firth and they talk: how she first got interested in comicsher relationship with librarieswhat aphantasia is and how she works around itmaking a graphic novel for adults and her desire to have it published by a traditional publisherreceiving a grant for the book and are funding bodies becoming more receptive to comics related projectsher involvement in different anthologies and her thoughts on receiving recognition and awardswhat graphic recording is and her work doing graphic recordingsof course, her journey to creating and publishing Eventually Everything Connectsthe October 18 book launch in Melbourne andSarah's reading recommendations: Top recommendations: Still Alive by Safdar Ahmed, Our Members Be Unlimited by Sam Wallman, The Grot by Pat Grant, Stone Fruit by Lee Lai. Boundless by Jillian Tamaki, Unflattening by Nick Sousanis and Glenn Gadges: The River at Night by Kevin Huizenga.For more on Sarah Firth check out her website: http://www.sarahthefirth.comTo find out more about Graphic Recorders Australia check out their website: https://www.graphicrecorders.org.au For more news and the complete roundup of resources and podcasts visit our main blog: https://aliagraphic.blogspot.com/ You can also follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ALIAGraphic​Hit the subscribe button for our podcast and blog and please leave us a glowing review, it will make you feel warm and fuzzy and every little bit helps. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I was introduced to Nick Sousanis' work through a Twitter connection, shout out to @AndrewJ, as I wanted to spend more time over the summer with what are broadly called graphic novels. Probably like many listeners, I had read comic books as they appeared in pop culture over the years, The Dark Tower adaptation, the Walking Dead, even “classic” graphic novels, I suppose, like Alan Moore's Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell. As a history major, I read the first book of Maus in college. but other than that I never really knew where to go from there. Now, just last month, I had a friend recommend Marjan Sahtrapi's Persepolis, a graphic memoir of her childhood before, during, and after the Iranian Revolution. I borrowed it from the library, read it in a single sitting, and was hooked. So I immediately put a call out on Twitter on where to go from there and got dozens of suggestions. I've spent the rest of the summer catching up on a number of graphic memoirs including the March Trilogy, The Best We Could Do, and Fun Home. Then came Nick Sousanis' Unflattening. Nick Sousanis is an Eisner-winning comics author and an associate professor of Humanities & Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University, where he runs a Comics Studies program. He received his doctorate in education at Teachers College, Columbia University in 2014, where he wrote and drew his dissertation entirely in comic book form. Titled Unflattening, it argues for the importance of visual thinking in teaching and learning, and was published by Harvard University Press in 2015. Unflattening received the 2016 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in Humanities, the Lynd-Ward Prize for best Graphic Novel of 2015, and was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Scholarly/Academic work. To date, Unflattening has been translated into French, Korean, Portuguese, Serbian, Polish, Italian, and Chinese.There is an irony here that we are going to attempt to discuss these very visually linked ideas in an audio podcast, but I will also provide links to the excerpts of Unflattening that are available on Nick's website.GUESTSDr. Nick Sousanis, Eisner-winning comics author and an associate professor of Humanities & Liberal Studies at San Francisco State UniversityRESOURCESNick Sousanis' WebsiteNick Sousanis' TwitterUnflatteningOn Graphic Scholarship: A Conversation with Nick Sousanis (The Comics Grid) Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Em março, o Clube Rádio Companhia leu a história em quadrinhos “A rosa mais vermelha desabrocha”, de Liv Stromqüist. * Participaram do podcast: Enrico Sera, do departamento de Marketing; Stephanie Roque, editora da Companhia das Letras; Tamiris Busato, assessora de imprensa do Grupo Companhia das Letras e Cecília Marins, quadrinista, ilustradora, jornalista e autora da reportagem em quadrinhos Parque das Luzes, obra vencedora do Prêmio Cásper Líbero. * “A rosa mais vermelha desabrocha” é uma poderosa e necessária reflexão sobre o amor na contemporaneidade. Com muito humor e inteligência, e o título emprestado de um verso da poeta norte-americana Hilda Doolittle, a obra examina as engrenagens do amor nos tempos do capitalismo tardio. A partir de histórias como a de Sócrates, que traiu Alcibíades há mais de dois mil anos, ou a de Teseu, que abandonou a amada Ariadne de uma hora para outra na ilha de Naxos, e com a ajuda de Beyoncé, do filósofo Sören Kierkegaard, dos smurfs, da namorada alucinada de Lorde Byron, de Platão, de Jabba de Star Wars, e de outros especialistas na arte de amar, a artista sueca Liv Strömquist mais uma vez desconstrói mitos e se afirma como uma das quadrinistas mais relevantes da atualidade. * INDICAÇÕES: HQ - "Minha experiência lésbica com a solidão" (Kabi Nagata): https://www.lojanewpop.com.br/minha-experiencia-lesbica-com-a-solidao HQ - "Desaplanar" (Nick Sousanis): https://veneta.com.br/produto/desaplanar/ HQ - "Paciência" (Daniel Clowes): https://grupoautentica.com.br/nemo/quadrinhos/paciencia/1453 HQ - "Três estações" (Cecília Marins): lançamento no final de 2022 HQ - "Heimat" (Nora Krug): https://www.companhiadasletras.com.br/detalhe.php?codigo=13793 Filme - "Medianeras: Buenos Aires na era do amor virtual" Podcast - "Just break up": https://www.justbreakuppod.com/ Pesquisadora - Valeska Zanello: https://www.instagram.com/zanellovaleska/ + https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC54qAezd5IglNA4vtBiJ2Rg * Edição: Paulo Júnior Apresentação: Enrico Sera

Pour rejoindre Olivier Robin: Université de SherbrookeVoici un article d'actualité sur le cours d'Olivier Robin et Benoît Leblanc. Article publié dans Frontiers Communication pour le cours d'Olivier Robin: Teaching communication with comics for postgraduate students. Celui-ci contient tous les détails du cours avec un sondage des étudiant.e.s qui y ont participé. Correction sur le nombre de visionnement de l'article, j'ai dit 5,000 dans le podcast, c'est plus de 2,700 (janvier 2022).Olivier Robin est aussi apparut sur le balado des Années Lumières (Radio Canada) le 21 Novembre 2021 pour parler de sa recherche et en Janvier 2022 pour discuter du livre Dessine ta science, récemment publié.Voici les hyperliens des noms et ressources mentionnés durant le balados.Nick Sousanis site web.European Research Council Comics: ERCcomics.com.Matthieu Burniat: site webSiouxie Wiles et Toby Morris participent à l'effort médiatique pour la COVID en Nouvelle Zélande. Siouxie Wiles twitter.The manga guide to... voir Wikipedia ou chercher dans Google.Logiciel pour commencer à fabriquer des BDs:https://www.pixton.com/https://makebeliefscomix.com/https://www.datacomics.net/http://www.comiclife.com/http://www.stripcreator.com/BDnF, La fabrique à BD   

This week, we're giving Anna's favourite issue of Excalibur the celebration it deserves, chatting with award-winning comics creator and educator Dr. Nick Sousanis about the very skillful, very complex, very sexy, very important visual storytelling of Excalibur #43, “Home Comforts.” We talk picturing dreams, Kurt's fondest desire(s), and what Kurt and Brian are actually fighting about (is it Meggan, or something else…?). We also talk quite a bit about transformative circus fantasies, spending a good chunk of the pod pouring over a single spectacular page—you can probably guess which one

In this special Thanksgiving episode, Joe and Robert answer these seven questions: 1. What are we currently reading? Joe is reading Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Robert is reading Unflattening by Nick Sousanis and Blockchain: Bubble or Revolution. 2. Most influential book of all time and why? Joe's influential books are Think and Grow Rich from Napoleon Hill and Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. Robert's are Peter Drucker's Practice of Management, Levitt's Marketing Myopia, Awakening to Your Life's Purpose and The Alchemist. 3. If I wrote a new book right now, what would I write about? Joe would write on the Web 3 Business Model for Content Creators or the sequel to The Will to Die. Robert would write about the wisdom worker. 4. Favorite/best TV show of the year. No contest...Ted Lasso. 5. Favorite current gadget. Joe likes the Ember Heated Coffee Mug and Robert likes Cometeer Coffee. 6. Biggest marketing trend of next 12 months. Joe believes NFTs and the metaverse will be a fad for marketers, but the big trend will be content marketing M&A. Robert believes that powered-by-AI is on the rise. 7. Current marketing or content creation pet peeve? Joe fighting the "do not build your content house on rented land" battle. Robert hates longer than needed blog posts or videos. --------- Liked this show? SUBSCRIBE to this podcast on Spotify, Apple, Google and more. Catch past episodes and show notes at ThisOldMarketing.site.

Presenting: a conversation with UNFLATTENING creator Nick Sousanis on his process, his work, drawing badly well, Bertrand Russell, Batman, and the joys and pains of drawing 500 babies. In which: we not only codify the truth that comics are essential but discuss the capacity of children to teach us how to be more aware... his progress and process on the follow-up to UNFLATTENING, NOSTOS... the "extended cognition" drawing grants us when we fall into the trap of thinking too much like a writer (raises hand)... getting over one's fear of drawing badly through Grids and Gestures... and the upcoming Adapting Comics for Blind and Low Vision Readers symposium. Nick's bio: > Nick Sousanis is an Eisner-winning comics author and an associate professor of Comics Studies, Humanities, & Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University. He received his doctorate in education at Teachers College, Columbia University in 2014, where he wrote and drew his dissertation entirely in comic book form. Titled UNFLATTENING, it argues for the importance of visual thinking in teaching and learning, and was published by Harvard University Press in 2015. Unflattening received the 2016 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in Humanities, the Lynd Ward Prize for best Graphic Novel of 2015, and was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Scholarly/Academic work...> Recent comics include “Against the Flow” and “Upwards” in The Boston Globe, “The Fragile Framework” for Nature in conjunction with the 2015 Paris Climate Accord co-authored with Rich Monastersky, and “A Life in Comics” for Columbia University Magazine – for which he received an Eisner Award for Best Short Story in 2018.Chapters: - Intro and technical babystep preamble (00:00)- "Every page I have to learn new things..." (02:13)- "I could keep coming back to that word..."(05:00)- "Batman is my first word..." (13:18)- "You're dancing between those two modes..." (17:13)- On Grids and Gestures (24:07)- "They change how they think by drawing..." (28:34)- "It's helpful to me because I can see everything... the drawing becomes this sort of extended cognition..." (32:09)- "So much of the new book is about conversations I had around the first one..."(37:38)- "My kid learns through moving..." (39:33)- "You want them to be ... more thoughtful... more aware..."(45:04)- On the Adapting Comics for Blind & Low Vision Readers Symposium (50:23) - "The accident of bad drawing can teach you to go places you don't expect..." (58:55)- Outro (1:05:19)Linkage: - You can connect with Nick and explore his work via his website, spinweaveandcut.com, and on Twitter, @nsousanis.- The Adapting Comics for Blind & Low Vision Symposium takes place from 9AM-4PM PT on Thursday, 12 August 2021. More info here.Me, in 2018, on UNFLATTENING (which still stands): > At once a profound work of philosophy and of comics mastery, Nick Sousanis's UNFLATTENING is an illumination of the seen and the unseen world rooted in the limitless potential of the comics medium, an exciting remix of centuries worth of thought that breaks free of the boundaries of the panel and the page and guides us through the flatlands of our prepackaged assumptions and hardwired, habitual beliefs into new, combinatorial realms of possibility.> Great works invite – no, demand – revisitation so that their innumerable secrets and layers might be fully explored and discovered. UNFLATTENING is no exception: in this love letter to both a medium and to our capacity for expansive thought, Sousanis has created something truly special: a journey into the furthest reaches of our awareness and understanding that asks us only for the best of ourselves, a journey that begs to be revisted time and again.> A must-read.Theme music, "Intersections," by Uziel Colón. All rights reserved.//You can find previous episodes of THE SOCIALIZED RECLUSE here and, if so inclined, sign up for my monthly+ newsletter, MacroParentheticals, here; I'm told that neither are terrible.

Today we have Eisner award-winning comics artist, author, and educator, Nick Sousanis in to talk about his book, Unflattening. How to explain this strange book? Well, written and drawn entirely as a comic book, Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking using graphic art to illustrate the ways we construct knowledge. Weaving together diverse ways of seeing drawn from science, philosophy, art, literature, and mythology, the book uses the collage-like capacity of comics to show that perception is always an active process of incorporating and reevaluating different vantage points. Full of graphic innovation, Unflattening is meant to counteract the type of narrow, rigid thinking that Nick calls “flatness.” The book has received numerous awards and has been translated to many languages. Nick's work has been featured in The Paris Review, The New York Times, the LA Review of Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Publishers Weekly, to name a few. Nick is also just a great and humble guy who I enjoyed speaking with immensely. So let's get into it, and I'll come back with some additional commentary on what to make of this wide-ranging conversation. Enjoy!

In this episode of the podcast, hear from Debbie Baff, a PhD Student in E-Research and Technology Enhanced Learning. Debbie has found sketchnotes have been instrumental in her academic work. Hear how mind mapping connects to sketchnotes for her and how she uses sketchnotes to better understand complex ideas.SPONSORED BYThis episode of the Sketchnote Army Podcast is brought to you by Neuland, the innovative maker of visual thinking tools. Every Neuland product is designed with passion to be durable and sustainable.Check out their newly redesigned Neuland FineOne® line of water-based, refillable markers:The rich, black, permanent Outliner in bullet and brush optionsThe crisp, fine lines and rich colors of the Sketch lineThe flowing, variable brushes and colors of the Art lineSave 15% with code neuland@sketchnotearmy-2021 at Neuland.com until May 30th, 2021RUNNING ORDERIntro: Who is Debbie?Debbie's origin story and path into sketchnotingMind-mapping influences and connections to sketchnotingTwo educational paths: art path and idea path?Development of thinking and styleHow Debbie integrates sketchnotes into her PhD workHeuristic Inquiry + sketchnotesNick Sousanis and visual PhD work'What is Debbie excited about?ToolsTipsOutroLINKSAmazon affiliate links below support the Sketchnote Army Podcast.Debbie's WebsiteDebbie on TwitterDebbie Baff's Sketchnotes PadletBook: How to Use Your Head by Tony BuzanBrian Mathers' Open Visual ThinkeryUsing Sketchnotes in PhD Research and Academic PracticeNick SousanisBook: Unflattening by Nick SousanisNick's Comic Studies Minor at San Francisco State UniversityInterview with Nick Sousanis on Sketchnote Army PodcastEleanor BeerSketchnote Army Podcast on Self-CareTOOLSAmazon affiliate links below support the Sketchnote Army Podcast.PadletMoleskine Hard Cover Art SketchbookSakura Pigma Micron FinelinerTombow Dual Brush Grayscale 6-Pack SetTombow Dual Brush Pink MarkeriPad Pro 12.9”Apple PencilPaper by WeTransferGoodnotesProcreateTIPSUse sticky notes to capture ideas before committingTake a photo of the powerpoint for referenceGo for it! Your sketchnote might encourage othersBuild your own icon libraryCREDITSProducer: Alec PulianasTheme music: Jon SchiedermayerSUBSCRIBE ON ITUNESYou can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes.SUPPORT THE PODCASTTo support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

100 episodes. (More than) 100 guests. Thousands of listeners. You, here, reading this and listening to this landmark episode.To mark this milestone, I turned the microphone towards the workshops work audience and asked if anyone would like to share the moment that has stuck with them most from these first 100 episodes.I've received 14 beautiful responses that, when taken together, form a bigger picture of the landscape of facilitation. You might be surprised at the varied scenery it captures!Thank you for supporting workshops work, for helping to make this show what it is, and for listening – whether this is your first time or your hundredth.Find out about:The moments that made listeners stop, think, reflect, and grow, including…Understanding the ground rules of facilitationHow to develop a facilitator's mindsetThe essentials of workshop designWhat we can learn from other disciplines to improve our facilitation skillsDon't miss the next show: Subscribe to the show with your favourite podcast player.Click here to download the free 1-page summaryAnd if the idea of NeverDoneBefore 2021, the community of facilitators, caught your attention; click here to explore it in more detail! A huge thank you must go to SessionLab, the sponsor of Workshops Work. Claim your free two months of SessionLab Pro now – this deal is exclusive to Workshops Work listeners! Questions and Answers[00:48] Robin: the summary for each episode![02:27] Anamaria: when Thomas Lahntahler, in episode 39, explained how curiosity and attention can foster psychological safety[04:10] Laure: the fourfold process of hosting, shared by Mary Alice Arthur in episode 58[06:05] Richard: realising that facilitators are like researchers, as I explored in episode 18[07:36] Gabriel: how experiences can create change but challenges help us solve problems, prompted by episode 91 with Shayne Smart[10:08] Annie: when Rein Sevenstern highlighted the importance of making time for reflection, in episode 20[11:32] Júlio: the core truth of facilitation that appears wherever and however we use our skills, taken from many episodes![13:33] Martijn: that Agile is a mindset, not a framework, as shared by Nisaar in episode 59[16:30] Sonja: that we need to stop having meetings on autopilot and, if we can't, we need to cancel them, shared powerfully by Gustavo in episode 26[18:22] Joe: learning to Unflatten and find new perspectives on the same problem, thanks to Nick Sousanis in episode 69[20:19] Samantha: why improv can improve our facilitation as much as any study programme or course, shared by Tamar in episode 16[22:02] Nadia: that how we meet matters and that the right setting can be transformational, prompted by Roumayne in episode 88[23:18] Ana: the concept of ‘the third facilitator' and how visual notetaking is more than ‘just' a tool, thanks to Céline in episode 49[26:30] Lucie: when I admitted that I might not have created NeverDoneBefore if I had known quite how much work it would take![28:12] My thanks to you and an open invitationLinksMy eBook, containing the summaries of the first 60 episodes!NeverDoneBefore Facilitation Festival E39 - Thomas Lahntahler E7 - Jeremy Akers E58 - Mary Alice Arthur 

Theorists and activists argue that education is the bedrock of a democratic society. Having a well-educated citizenry is necessary for people to meet the demands required for democracies to thrive. In the United States, schooling is conceived of as one of the primary vehicles for educating these democratic citizens. For many who have gone through traditional schooling, physical education seems like an interruption in the school day, for better or for worse, a distraction from the rest of our formal learning. Physical education conjures up a flurry of competitive sports, dodgeball, and fitness tests. Perhaps it brings to mind anxieties around your own body composition and getting in shape, being physically fit or failing to become properly athletic. In part, this is the consequence of designing physical education with a narrow focus on physical literacy, control, efficiency, and a commitment to a contextless ideal. It could also be the byproduct of larger cultural forces obsessed with profit margins, results, and the bottom line. Contrary to this viewpoint, some educators and scholars are pushing to make physical education a more prominent contributor to democratic living.  Nate Babcock is an educator in Southern California. With 18 years experience, he is centered on broadening our views of physical education, approaching it as a way of encouraging mobility, physical and social, and democratic practices like cooperation, inclusion, dialogue, and collective exploration.  How might concepts such as bodyfulness, corporeality, and phenomenology inform a more democratic approach to physical education? What might a more expansive and democratic view of physical education look like? And how do we enlarge conceptions of physical fitness to include how we interact with one another beyond the gym and the classroom, and into our communities? Show Notes “Toward Better Whys and Whats of P.E.” by Nate Babcock (2020) Alfred North Whitehead Henri Bergson Gilles Deleuze Mae-Wan Ho John Dewey Maurice Merleau-Ponty Martin Buber Carl Rogers “Somaesthetics: A Disciplinary Proposal” by Richard Shusterman (1999) “Life and Value: A Whiteheadian Perspective” by Nathaniel Barrett "Enkinaesthesia: Proto-moral Value in Action-Enquiry and Interaction” by Susan A. J.  Stuart (2017)  "How to be an Anti-Capitalist Today" by Erik Olin-Wright (2015) “Who or What is the Self?” by Adam Robbert (2018) ”From Final Knowledge to Infinite Learning, with Chaudhuri, Whitehead, and Deleuze” by Matt Segall (2018) ”Process-Relational Philosophy as a Way of Life” by Adrian Ivakhiv (2018) I and Thou by Martin Buber (1923) Unflattening by Nick Sousanis (2015)  Bodies in Revolt: A Primer in Somatic Thinking by Thomas Hanna (1985) The Play Ethic: A Manifesto for a Different Way of Living by Pat Kane (2004) Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion by Thomas Nail (2020) Noumenautics: Metaphysics - Meta-Ethics - Psychedelics by Peter Sjöstedt-H (2015) Ethics in John Cobb's Process Theology by Paul Custodio Bube (1989) Attunement Through the Body by Shigenori Nagatomo (1992) The Body, Self Cultivation, and Ki Energy by Yasuo Yuasa (1993) Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach by Martha C. Nussbaum (2013) Meaning of Life and the Universe by Mae-Wan Ho (2017)

workshops work is a podcast for facilitators, by a facilitator, about facilitation… so why have I invited Assistant Professor of Humanities and Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University and comic book artist Nick Sousanis to join me in this episode?I read Nick's remarkable work ‘Unflattening' recently and immediately knew that the world of facilitation needed to know about it. I was delighted when he accepted my invitation!What followed was a beautiful exchange of ideas and reflections from two distant fields, worlds that do not normally collide but have more in common than you might first think. This is a very special episode of workshops work – and one that I think could change our practice in a deep and powerful way. Listen to find out: Why trying to think outside of the boxes we are in isn't necessarily a good ideaThe most important question Nick believes we need to answer in this moment in timeWhy unflattening is a journey, not a destinationWhy images aren't simply aesthetic, but communicative in novel and detailed waysHow creative constraints and limits help us learn, grow, and unflatten Click here to download the free 1-page summaryDon't miss the next show: Subscribe to the show with your favourite podcast player.Feeling inspired by the conversation in this episode? We can have our own - take a seat at my virtual table as part of a Mastermind Group.A huge thank you must go to SessionLab, the sponsor of Workshops Work. Claim your free two months of SessionLab Pro now – this deal is exclusive to Workshops Work listeners! Questions and Answers[01:44] Is it correct that Unflattening was your dissertation?[02:33] What prompted you to draw your dissertation?[05:25] Where was the idea of Unflattening born?[08:58] How does Unflattening relate to ‘thinking outside the box'?[12:47] Did you create Unflattening to intentionally remove as many of these ‘boxes' as possible?[17:47] What is the magic ingredient for hearing each other's arguments?[22:27] Is Unflattening a journey, a philosophy, a destination?[27:51] How can we practice Unflattening when it comes to emotive topics?[31:50] What can pictures teach us that words cannot?[36:21] How do you encourage people to follow the path of your writing without being too explicitly directional?[45:05] – What makes a workshop – or a class – fail?[01:02:13] – What is the one thing you would like listeners to take away from this episode?LinksNick's websiteAn excerpt of Nick's book, UnflatteningConnect to NickOn TwitterOn Facebook

San Francisco State Professor & Eisner Award Winning Nick Sousanis on Creating Comics & Comics in the Classroom. Discussion includes his journey as Critical Maker & his groundbreaking Unflattening--the first graphic dissertation turned into book.

This week, Sam and Seth sit down with Nick Sousanis, an Eisner-winning comics author and an assistant professor of Humanities & Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University. Listen in to hear about Sousanis' perspective on comics as an academic, and how his studies informed his recent book Unflattening, which argues for the importance of visual thinking in teaching and learning. Happy listening!

Today, Mike is joined by Nick Sousanis, Assistant professor of Humanities & Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University, where he is runs a Comics Studies program. While at Columbia university, he wrote and drew his dissertation entirely in comic book form, which became the book Unflattening. He's an advocate for using visuals in education. RUNNING ORDER Intro Nick's Comic-based Dissertation Drawing isn't just for the professionals Unflattening book Comic studies Visuals and metaphors across languages Tools 3 Tips Nick's next book LINKS Nick's website - http://spinweaveandcut.com/ Nick's Twitter - https://twitter.com/nsousanis Nick's Book, Unflattering - http://spinweaveandcut.com/unflattening/ Unflattening on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Unflattening-Nick-Sousanis/dp/0674744438/ San Fransisco State University - https://www.sfsu.edu/ Grids and gestures - http://spinweaveandcut.com/grids-and-gestures/ Linda Barry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynda_Barry TOOLS Newsprint paper - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsprint Wacom Intuos - https://www.wacom.com/en-in/products/pen-tablets/intuos Cintiq - https://www.wacom.com/en-in/products/pen-displays/wacom-cintiq iPad Pro - https://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/ Apple Pencil - https://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/ Pilot Precise Rollerball v7 - http://pilotpen.us/brands/precise/precise-v5-v7/ 3 TIPS Lines, marks & gestures You can draw even if you don't think you can Don't worry about ideas, just draw stuff. CREDITS Producer: Jon Schiedermayer Show Notes: Chris Wilson SUPPORT THE PODCAST To support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army and Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's books and use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off! http://rohdesign.com/handbook/ http://rohdesign.com/workbook/ SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES: You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sketchnote-army-podcast/id1111996778 PAST PODCAST SEASONS Season 1 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se1 Season 2 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se2 Season 3 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se3 Season 4 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se4 Season 5 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se5

"It’s hard to look at pictures without saying ‘oh that’s just a picture’ and not think about all the kinds of connections that are being made...I’m using this other mode of thinking, which has different affordances and it allowed me to think about things in different ways."

A video of this interview is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91TQNzl3l-k&t=0s&list=PL_pXBtCqjKy9DJ7UWxUI0GI_JGcX1exh5. Nick Sousanis was at MoCCA-fest promoting his dissertation comic, Spin Weave and Cut which was used as his dissertation at Columbia U and will published by Harvard Press in March 2015. To find more of his work online, you can check out his website,http://spinweaveandcut.blogspot.com/. This independent comics interview was conducted by Joseph Coco on behalf of Becca Hillburn's art process blog Keep on Truckin', Nattosoup (http://nattosoup.blogspot.com). If you would like to be interviewed at a convention or show support for the interviews, please contact Becca. Music Credits: Andy Heller- "Prowl" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/up-and-coning-artists/message

Acesse nosso SITE: goo.gl/hDQkSw e FACEBOOK: goo.gl/3mGhfd Compre DESAPLANAR na Amazon: https://amzn.to/2PueyHf Resenha de DESAPLANAR: https://goo.gl/omzE95 Resenha de ALMOÇO NU: https://goo.gl/Gi462Y Vídeo sobre MISTÉRIOS E PAIXÕES: https://goo.gl/paJmSS Vídeo sobre WINSOR MCCAY: https://goo.gl/6tv8L2 Vídeo sobre LIVROS TEÓRICOS DE HQ: https://goo.gl/4xDgtD TED Talks com SCOTT MCCLOUD: https://goo.gl/tcrRWi Desaplanar (Unflattening) é uma obra singular nos Quadrinhos e... espere! Será que podemos chamar esse trabalho de HQ, simplesmente? Essa é uma questão complicada. Como já falamos dela anteriormente, na resenha que você acessa no link deste parágrafo, segue abaixo um trecho do texto que dá alguma ideia sobre o trabalho: Trata-se de uma tese de doutorado, apresentada na Universidade Columbia em 2014, elaborada em formato de Histórias em Quadrinhos. O pioneirismo foi recompensado. No ano seguinte, a editora da Universidade Harvard publicou o trabalho, rendendo vários prêmios e elogios rasgados de acadêmicos e da imprensa especializada. Se existe um objetivo primordial em Desaplanar, é o questionamento de um senso comum sobre a primazia do texto na assimilação do conhecimento, puxando um rosário de tópicos que captura entusiastas das HQ’s, colegas do autor na área da educação ou, simplesmente, pessoas interessadas em qualquer tipo de arte. Apenas um requisito é básico nessa viagem: a vontade de alargar os horizontes da percepção e do entendimento. Pois bem, isso ajuda a entender, mas não é o bastante. Confira nosso bate papo animado sobre essa peça única. A conversa passou sobre Almoço Nu, de Burroughs, e sua adaptação, Mistérios e Paixões, além de Winsor McCay e livros teóricos sobre HQ. Também não poderíamos esquecer de Scott MCloud,uma das influências de Nick Sousanis. Todos os links desses assuntos, que abordamos em ocasiões anteriores, estão no começo desta descrição. Esperamos conseguir estimular a curiosidade de quem não conhecia, assim como propor novas interpretações a quem já a leu. Será que atingimos esse objetivo? Ficou bom? Foi muito curto ou muito longo? Conte para nós comentando nesta postagem ou mandando um email para podcast@formigaeletrica.com.br. Queremos ouvir sua opinião, então sinta-se à vontade. FormigaCast volta daqui a quinze dias, com mais um assunto legal. Até lá!

Salve, jovens! Está no ar mais um episódio do Historiador em Quadrinhos! Nesta edição Guilherme Silva se debruça sobre a tese de doutorado em quadrinhos de Nick Sousanis. Uma obra pioneira, por ser a primeira tese de doutorado da Universidade de Columbia neste formato. Ouça o episódio e descubra a proposta de renovar a perspectiva […]

With Nick Sousanis The TORCH Comics and Graphic Novels network hosted an event with Nick Sousanis, author of ‘Unflattening’ (2015), where he talked about his use of the comics form to develop new ways of critical thinking. Ran in collaboration with the TORCH ‘Critical Visualisation Network’.

Mario Muscar and Zack Kruse join us to discuss The Strain, Noah Van Sciver's Disquiet from Fantagraphics, Predator Vs. Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens by John Layman, Chris Mooneyham, Michael Atiyeh, and Glenn Fabry from IDW and Dark Horse, Big Kids by Michael Deforge from Drawn & Quarterly, Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? by Alan Moore and Curt Swan, Dave Gibbons, Rick Veitch, George Perez, Kurt Schaffenberger, Al Williamson, Gene D'Angelo, Tom Ziuko, and Tatjana Wood, Superman Vs. Spider-Man, Superman Family #181 by Cary Bates, Jose Delbo, and Vince Colletta, Dark Knight III: The Master Race #5 by FRANK MILLER, Brian Azzarello, Andy Kubert, and Klaus Janson, Blue Beetle: Reborn #1 by Keith Giffen, Scott Kolins, and Romulo Fajardo Jr., Generation Zero #1 by Fred Van Lente and Francis Portela from Valiant, Unflattening by Nick Sousanis from The Harvard University Press, Eric Powell's Hillbilly from Albatross, Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism by Paul Young from Rutger's University Press, Cage by Brian Azzarello, Richard Corben, and Jose Villarubia, plus a whole mess more!

In this episode: Unflattening by Nick Sousanis, BORB by Jason Little, Mowgli's Mirror by Olivier Schrauwen, and Day Glo Ayhole by Ben Passmore.

We'll explore what happens when we bring more visual images and visual thinking -- including comics -- into teaching, learning and creativity. Our guest is comics artist and educator Nick Sousanis, who received a doctorate in education from Teachers College, Columbia University, where he wrote and drew his dissertation entirely in comic book form. His dissertation has been published as the book, Unflattening. 

Nick Sousanis‘s new book is a must-read for anyone interested in thinking or teaching about the relationships between text, image, visuality, and knowledge. Unflattening (Harvard University Press, 2015) uses the medium of comics to explore “flatness of sight” and help readers think and work beyond it by opening up new perceptive possibilities. It proposes that we think about unflattening as a “simultaneous engagement of multiple vantage points from which to engender new ways of seeing,” and beautifully embodies what it can look like to make that happen. Readers will find thoughtful reflections on the possibilities and constraints afforded by working and thinking with different kinds of verbal and visual language, including a consideration of comics as “an amphibious language of juxtapositions and fragments,” and some wonderful work on storytelling and imagination. The book includes a wonderful “Notes” section that offers some background on the inspiration behind many of the images (including Flatland, Calvino’s Six Memos for the New Millennium, Deleuze & Guattari, and many others) a bibliography for further reading, and a series of maps of the structure of the book when it was a work-in-progress. It’s a fabulous book that is a pleasure to read and deserves a wide readership. For more on Nick’s work on Unflattening and beyond, check out his website: http://spinweaveandcut.com/. For listeners and readers interested in teaching with the book, check out this site: http://scholarlyvoices.org/unflattening/index.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick Sousanis‘s new book is a must-read for anyone interested in thinking or teaching about the relationships between text, image, visuality, and knowledge. Unflattening (Harvard University Press, 2015) uses the medium of comics to explore “flatness of sight” and help readers think and work beyond it by opening up new perceptive possibilities. It proposes that we think about unflattening as a “simultaneous engagement of multiple vantage points from which to engender new ways of seeing,” and beautifully embodies what it can look like to make that happen. Readers will find thoughtful reflections on the possibilities and constraints afforded by working and thinking with different kinds of verbal and visual language, including a consideration of comics as “an amphibious language of juxtapositions and fragments,” and some wonderful work on storytelling and imagination. The book includes a wonderful “Notes” section that offers some background on the inspiration behind many of the images (including Flatland, Calvino’s Six Memos for the New Millennium, Deleuze & Guattari, and many others) a bibliography for further reading, and a series of maps of the structure of the book when it was a work-in-progress. It’s a fabulous book that is a pleasure to read and deserves a wide readership. For more on Nick’s work on Unflattening and beyond, check out his website: http://spinweaveandcut.com/. For listeners and readers interested in teaching with the book, check out this site: http://scholarlyvoices.org/unflattening/index.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick Sousanis‘s new book is a must-read for anyone interested in thinking or teaching about the relationships between text, image, visuality, and knowledge. Unflattening (Harvard University Press, 2015) uses the medium of comics to explore “flatness of sight” and help readers think and work beyond it by opening up new perceptive possibilities. It proposes that we think about unflattening as a “simultaneous engagement of multiple vantage points from which to engender new ways of seeing,” and beautifully embodies what it can look like to make that happen. Readers will find thoughtful reflections on the possibilities and constraints afforded by working and thinking with different kinds of verbal and visual language, including a consideration of comics as “an amphibious language of juxtapositions and fragments,” and some wonderful work on storytelling and imagination. The book includes a wonderful “Notes” section that offers some background on the inspiration behind many of the images (including Flatland, Calvino’s Six Memos for the New Millennium, Deleuze & Guattari, and many others) a bibliography for further reading, and a series of maps of the structure of the book when it was a work-in-progress. It’s a fabulous book that is a pleasure to read and deserves a wide readership. For more on Nick’s work on Unflattening and beyond, check out his website: http://spinweaveandcut.com/. For listeners and readers interested in teaching with the book, check out this site: http://scholarlyvoices.org/unflattening/index.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick Sousanis‘s new book is a must-read for anyone interested in thinking or teaching about the relationships between text, image, visuality, and knowledge. Unflattening (Harvard University Press, 2015) uses the medium of comics to explore “flatness of sight” and help readers think and work beyond it by opening up new perceptive possibilities. It proposes that we think about unflattening as a “simultaneous engagement of multiple vantage points from which to engender new ways of seeing,” and beautifully embodies what it can look like to make that happen. Readers will find thoughtful reflections on the possibilities and constraints afforded by working and thinking with different kinds of verbal and visual language, including a consideration of comics as “an amphibious language of juxtapositions and fragments,” and some wonderful work on storytelling and imagination. The book includes a wonderful “Notes” section that offers some background on the inspiration behind many of the images (including Flatland, Calvino’s Six Memos for the New Millennium, Deleuze & Guattari, and many others) a bibliography for further reading, and a series of maps of the structure of the book when it was a work-in-progress. It’s a fabulous book that is a pleasure to read and deserves a wide readership. For more on Nick’s work on Unflattening and beyond, check out his website: http://spinweaveandcut.com/. For listeners and readers interested in teaching with the book, check out this site: http://scholarlyvoices.org/unflattening/index.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick Sousanis‘s new book is a must-read for anyone interested in thinking or teaching about the relationships between text, image, visuality, and knowledge. Unflattening (Harvard University Press, 2015) uses the medium of comics to explore “flatness of sight” and help readers think and work beyond it by opening up new perceptive possibilities. It proposes that we think about unflattening as a “simultaneous engagement of multiple vantage points from which to engender new ways of seeing,” and beautifully embodies what it can look like to make that happen. Readers will find thoughtful reflections on the possibilities and constraints afforded by working and thinking with different kinds of verbal and visual language, including a consideration of comics as “an amphibious language of juxtapositions and fragments,” and some wonderful work on storytelling and imagination. The book includes a wonderful “Notes” section that offers some background on the inspiration behind many of the images (including Flatland, Calvino’s Six Memos for the New Millennium, Deleuze & Guattari, and many others) a bibliography for further reading, and a series of maps of the structure of the book when it was a work-in-progress. It’s a fabulous book that is a pleasure to read and deserves a wide readership. For more on Nick’s work on Unflattening and beyond, check out his website: http://spinweaveandcut.com/. For listeners and readers interested in teaching with the book, check out this site: http://scholarlyvoices.org/unflattening/index.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick Sousanis‘s new book is a must-read for anyone interested in thinking or teaching about the relationships between text, image, visuality, and knowledge. Unflattening (Harvard University Press, 2015) uses the medium of comics to explore “flatness of sight” and help readers think and work beyond it by opening up new perceptive possibilities. It proposes that we think about unflattening as a “simultaneous engagement of multiple vantage points from which to engender new ways of seeing,” and beautifully embodies what it can look like to make that happen. Readers will find thoughtful reflections on the possibilities and constraints afforded by working and thinking with different kinds of verbal and visual language, including a consideration of comics as “an amphibious language of juxtapositions and fragments,” and some wonderful work on storytelling and imagination. The book includes a wonderful “Notes” section that offers some background on the inspiration behind many of the images (including Flatland, Calvino’s Six Memos for the New Millennium, Deleuze & Guattari, and many others) a bibliography for further reading, and a series of maps of the structure of the book when it was a work-in-progress. It’s a fabulous book that is a pleasure to read and deserves a wide readership. For more on Nick’s work on Unflattening and beyond, check out his website: http://spinweaveandcut.com/. For listeners and readers interested in teaching with the book, check out this site: http://scholarlyvoices.org/unflattening/index.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Featured Book: Mind Change, by Susan Greenfield. Digital technology is all around us, and there’s more of it every day. It’s changing the way we live our lives – and neuroscientist Susan Greenfield says it’s also affecting our brains. And on the nightstand: Invisible, by Philip Ball; and Unflattening, by Nick Sousanis.

On this episode of the podcast, Andy and Derek discuss two thought-provoking books that challenge the way we look at sequential narratives. First, they explore François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters's The Leaning Girl, the first edition of the Franco-Belgian series, Les Cités obscures, currently being translated and published in English by Alaxis Press. The guys begin by giving a little background of The Obscure Cities, its spotty publication history in the US, and Alaxis Press' attempts to bring all eleven volumes of the series into print with new translations. The Leaning Girl is actually the sixth book in the series, although readers do not need any knowledge or experience with the earlier works in order to appreciate it. In fact, the guys emphasize the fact that The Leaning Girl easily stands (or leans) on its own, and its immersive narrative world, as fantastic as it is, effectively draws you in so that you quickly become acquainted with its many facets. There are three story threads that eventually tie together, much like the convergence between worlds that takes place in the book. Translated by Stephen D. Smith, and with photography by Marie-Françoise Plissart, The Leaning Girl is a beautiful European album-sized work of art, one that anticipates and sets the standard for the next planned volumes in the series, The Theory of the Grain of Sand and The Shadow of a Man. Next, the Two Guys with PhDs look at a completely different kind of book, Nick Sousanis's Unflattening. Published by Harvard University Press, this book is based off of Sousanis's doctoral dissertation at the Teachers College of Columbia University, and it focuses on alternative and diverse ways of experiencing the world, making our understanding of existence more "rounded" and less "flat" (thus, the title). This is an extended essay in comics form -- much like Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics -- and it's divided into ten main sections (not counting the extensive notes and bibliography that complete the text). Sousanis begins with references to Edwin A. Abbott's Flatland and then uses that romance as a springboard into his larger thesis. The first three chapters, or parts, provide a brief introductory overview of epistemology from a historical perspective. The themes presented here are played out over the course of the text. In the fourth section, "The Shape of Our Thoughts," Sousanis links his broader ideas with the medium of comics, and it's here where Unflattening becomes a kind of theoretical take on comics. After that, the book plays out the remainder of his thesis. Both guys are fascinated by this project, and as Andy points out, the book is exciting for what might anticipate with future graduate studies, comics and otherwise. Will we see other comics-based dissertations in other disciplines? And while Derek believes this to be one of the most notable books of the year, he nonetheless feels that the narrative flattens out -- so to speak -- about halfway in, after the "Shape of Our Thoughts" chapter, and that Sousanis merely revisits or repeats many of the points he made in the first half. Regardless, this is comic worth studying, even though it will probably fall beneath most readers' radar. But as the guys point out, it, along with The Leaning Girl, deserves serious and repeated attention.

Nick Sousanis guests to talk about the dissertation he’s writing at Columbia — as a comic book. We talk about learning through mixed media, work through why I’m so fascinated with things I know so little about and philosophize about comic books.

Nick Sousanis joined Brooke and I to discuss comicbooks in the classroom; Nick, the fantastic subject of our inaugural podcast, was an even better guest. Due to the length at which we talked and the amount of content that we covered, it is likely that we will be returning to the interview for another podcast in the future. For this podcast, however, I isolated the points of our discussion where we engaged the question of how comic books can help students of all different fields in both their intellectual and professional lives.