SKETCHNOTE PERANAKAN MUSEUM

Ink and Wash: 14x21 cm: Peranakan Museum

 

 

Docent for today introduced herself as CZ.
Brought us to introduction room.
and briefed on Peranakan Culture.
Traced back to Cheng Ho and Hung Li Po.

Showed Kebaya and Gold Belt (wealth)
Photo of Peranakan wedding

Wedding ceremonies lasted 12 days
Couple were royalty of the day.
Aspects of material culture
triple broach krosang

Glass bead table cloth,
  more than a million 3 mm glass beads from Checkoslovakia.
Butterfly, dragn fly motif
flowers
abundance

necklace and headgear; own or rent
motifs
dragon
pineapple: abundance, prosperity
8 immortals
ifts to exchage
jewelry
token cash 36$ (Not selling daughter)
foreleg of pig
 oranges
candles
brandy

Day 1 hair combing ceremony
Groom sits on rice barrel and faces family altar
Chinese almanac
Scissors

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Sireh set,
important part of culture

silver/ brass pilowcase ends
 riposte metal work.

Bridal gifts include furniture
tables
chairs
cupboards
wedding bed
intricate carving.

Bridal bed
Innder double bed
outer single bed.
incese burner
sireh box
young male child rolls on bed to influence baby making
rooster and hen under bed
which comes out first predicts gender of  first child

virginity testing

Kitchen = mulot = mouth
young girls learn by starting to chop carrots

food larder to keep food away from insects and cats.

match maker comes to look for potential girls
listens to sound of pounding rempah
mortar and pestle

earthen ware ceramincs
nonya ware
not only blue and white
but bizarre colours
red, blue, yellow green

kebaya with 3 krsang
sarong

Tan Kim Sen's ancestor altar
including set for ice cream.

2014 May Facilitation Mentored

Giving sunglasses, stepping on a butterfly

unintended impact on community.....

I was happy to give positive feedback for connect meeting where Iearned a lot

Liked the sticky wall

Learned how to use it

Learned to focus on process and avoid content as a process facilitator

Upon reflection on my community development work

I see I value authenticity 

Learned how Noel applied convergence /contrast of Neutral, Authentic and Mindfulness at conference.

Planning a session on wholistic world view analysis

(Factors that influence farmers income from rice)

Insight on use of ORID on team going to Cambodia

Reflection on the mentoring process

Introduction to picture notes April 2014

I introduced  picture notes (spanning sketch notes to wall charts and in between） to my friends at community development team CHE network meeting Phnom Penh, April 2014.

I had been doing Graphic  Recording for them already for one day on 4x8 foot chart. 

We had 35 participants from 7 different NGOs. 

To begin the session I distributed blank A6 notebooks as gift to each participant: 

"Please use picture and words to take notes of this session in this notebook" I said .

I spoke in English and my partner translated to Khmer for the in-country participants.

"Why ?" I asked 

"Why do we want to record with picture notes aka Sketchnotes aka idea drawings?"

And I started on a flip chart to write the word "why" and encouraged them to copy.

"Because it helps us with better memory" I said

And I drew arrow going in to fill opened empty head

And encouraged them to sketch likewise.

"and it is more fun"

Drew happy person jumping up, clicking heels

"Engages left brain and right brain"

Sketched head with two halves of brain exposed, and arrow pouring in

"Crosses language barrier"

Drew two PAC-man style heads facing each other , one with ABC, one with chinese characters

Sketchnotes can be done in different sizes: for yourself or 1-1 face to face discussions you can yourse

A6 size sketch note book

A4 paper

Back of napkin

These are easily portable

having A6 size notebook allows us to practice every day the style of taking notes with words and pictures.

These can be photocopied for easy reference and distribution.

Flipboard

AO flip chart

And big wall chart

Useful for bigger groups

Everyone can see content of discussion going on.

Can take photograph for reproduction and record.

Can arrange ideas in different ways to tell the story

Mind map is one way

Start with centre

Branch out to nodes

Each node may have subnodes

Arrange ideas of cause and effect like a problem solving tree with fruits and roots

Images and ideas should be drawn simply and clearly

Can use label 

One participant worried that he could not draw cow accurately:

My suggestion:

Just draw a 4 legged animal and label it "cow"

From the corner of my eye and a sneak peek here and there, I saw quite a few participants actually drawing and writing.

Emboldened by what I saw, I said I would tell them a story and ask thm to record the story in words and pictures.

I told the story of the prodigal son

As verbatim as I could from the gospel text.

Participants seemed to be responding well.

I was pleased with the effort.

Wall of Fame

At Inauguration of Singapore Women's Wall of Fame.

Attempted Flipchart Graphic Recording while seated at table.

Cardboard backing to flipchart.

Perched on table and lap.

Impression:

Not enough room for working.

Should have stood up and taped chart to door, wall or whiteboard easel.

Host: Aunty Pat who's mum Dr Maggie Lim was being inducted.

Work in progress, highlighting with pan pastels applied with make up sponge.

Stealth recording at dinner would have been easier on iPad, sketchnote, A4 or A3 format : I wanted to push the envelope and try A0 flipchart stealth mode.

By end of presentation my chart was ready, and my spiffy suit had some curious green coloured chalk marks! (Think yellow +blue!!!).

In retrospect would I have done anything different? 

I could have worn a more robust suit.

I could have stood/ sat in a rear corner of the ballroom/ hall.

I could have sought permission from the organizers .

All in all I enjoyed the experience and it helped me push the envelope and helped me grow. Plus my dinner host liked it!

A few days later my dinner host asked if she could have the chart; 

Here is a bit of the post production chart work:

Flipped the flip chart and ironed out the wrinkles folds and creases. Mainly dry but a tiny bit of steam for the most wrinkly bit.

Tested out an old chart with hair spray as fixer : must not apply top much!

Judicious amount of fixing hair spray sprayed.

Measured and cut cardboard roll as holder.

Rolled up chart.

Held in holder.

Chart with red Chinese seal.

Signature

and name card affixed.

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