The BMW Foundation brings together responsible leaders worldwide to share insights and solutions addressing global challenges. One of their key initiatives, RISE SYNC, is an online event that convenes members of the Responsible Leaders Network across Asia, Europe, and North America to discuss themes centered on four pillars: Resilience, Intelligence, Sustainability, and Equity.
The Challenge:
How to distill and visually communicate the core ideas and extensive discussions from 16 hours of breakout sessions, making the complex information easily accessible and engaging for diverse audiences.
How to distill and visually communicate the core ideas and extensive discussions from 16 hours of breakout sessions, making the complex information easily accessible and engaging for diverse audiences.
The Solution:
In collaboration with Paula Quintas from the BMW Foundation team, I acted as the Graphic Facilitator, transforming numerous live Jamboard notes into clear, structured mind maps. The process involved clustering critical concepts by affinity, linking them to the RISE pillars, and relating them to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
In collaboration with Paula Quintas from the BMW Foundation team, I acted as the Graphic Facilitator, transforming numerous live Jamboard notes into clear, structured mind maps. The process involved clustering critical concepts by affinity, linking them to the RISE pillars, and relating them to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Starting from raw data collected live and validated by participants, we organized topics into thematic clusters, identified emerging trends—including those influenced by COVID-19—and mapped their interconnections. The final graphics employed the RISE identity color palette alongside the official SDG colors, ensuring visual coherence and intuitive understanding. Key design principles included positioning topics related to multiple pillars between them and anchoring universally relevant themes at the center.
Impact:
These mind maps provide a powerful visual synthesis of complex, multi-regional conversations, enabling stakeholders and the wider public to grasp the challenges and innovative approaches shaping the future of cities and leadership. The project exemplifies how thoughtful graphic facilitation can enhance knowledge sharing and collective action.
These mind maps provide a powerful visual synthesis of complex, multi-regional conversations, enabling stakeholders and the wider public to grasp the challenges and innovative approaches shaping the future of cities and leadership. The project exemplifies how thoughtful graphic facilitation can enhance knowledge sharing and collective action.
My Role:
Graphic Facilitator (hands-on execution), collaborating closely with BMW Foundation’s team on trend identification, SDG alignment, moodboards, and visual direction.
Graphic Facilitator (hands-on execution), collaborating closely with BMW Foundation’s team on trend identification, SDG alignment, moodboards, and visual direction.
More about the event: https://www.risecities.org/rise-sync
First moodboard
This is what we got from each event: Jamboards made live and verified by the participants of each breakout.
Then we turned it into something like this,
1. Separating topics into clusters by concepts. 2. Identifying trends and related SDGs
3. Identifying trends related to COVID-19
Finally, I put them all in graphics following RISE identity colors and SDGs standard colors, making sure that
1. Topics related to two concepts were in between them
2. Topics related to all concepts would be linked to the inner white circle or the gray background circle.
