Imagine trying to explain a complex idea to your team, only to be met with blank stares and confusion. We’ve all been there, struggling to bridge the gap between our thoughts and others’ understanding ...

World Sketchnote Day 2026 draws attention to the growing practice of sketchnoting—a visual method of capturing ideas using ...

Arts and science are sometimes thought to be on opposite ends of the spectrum of creativity. However, the Visual Thinking Strategies tactic has shown that implementing arts into other fields of ...

Moving from textual thinking to visual thinking Tom Haymes June 5, 2019 Instead of forcing visual thinkers into textual thinking, we need to see the world differently and develop critical thinking ...

Medicine is often called a blend of art and science. But can studying Picasso and Gauguin turn budding doctors into better diagnosticians? That’s the premise behind an elective introduced this fall ...

Effective medical diagnosis depends not just on looking, but on truly perceiving. Recognizing this, many medical training programs have adopted Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) discussions about art ...

How would you rate your problem-solving skills in running your business? Your answer to this question is important. Many successful entrepreneurs have developed a keen sense for what it takes to ...

Amanda Bongers receives funding from SSHRC and NSERC. Madeleine Dempster receives funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Queen's University, Ontario provides funding as a ...

In Marion Bageant’s classroom at Garfield Elementary School, first-graders tackled the slippery subject of subtraction last week with a pile of worms. The worms existed only on paper, but the students ...