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Gateshead Food Partnership - Lim Graphic Recording

Case Study

Gateshead Food Partnership's launch event

Graphic recording, digital visuals, facilitation

We’ve been supporting Gateshead Food Partnership to visualise their launch event: Gateshead Food Summit, at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.

Community leaders, campaigners and local people from the area came together for a brilliant day full of passion and important discussions about the food system in Gateshead, looking at sustainable, healthy and affordable food for everyone.

Gateshead Food Partnership - Lim Graphic Recording

Setting up for success before the Summit

We worked collaboratively with Nikki Dravers, Gateshead Food Partnership Coordinator, in the planning of the event, and became a thinking partner on the design of the day.

Our visuals needed to capture the energy, passion and inspiration at the event, and we would also be facilitating a session about understanding our place within the food system.

We thought not only about the key elements (the visuals and the facilitated session), but also about the smaller details such as how people would be assigned tables, and how to capture pledges from participants. Nikki was inspired by our conversations and used pieces of fruit and veg to group people and assign them to tables, which was a creative way to incorporate what the day was about. Attendees could then eat the fruit or take the vegetable home with them.

Ellie Chapman and Nikki Dravers

Graphic recording during the summit

On the day of the event, Ellie and Ruby graphic recorded the speaker sessions to capture all of the key insights from the day, while Steph spoke to participants about their engagement and learnings to create a digital visual that would be turned into a timelapse video.

Facilitating conversations during workshops

As well as drawing, Ellie facilitated a session with participants by splitting them into pairs to have purposeful conversations about the food system and to understand our place within it. Passionate conversations and thinking happened within these breakout sessions, with everyone’s voice being heard.

Your extensive experience with meetings and events meant that you knew what would and wouldn't work, and could visualise how to make conversations effective and productive.

Nikki Dravers

Engaging participants and continuing conversations after the Summit

The work we created got brilliant feedback from the participants, and our collaborative planning, facilitation and drawing all added an extra layer of engagement to a day where everyone was passionately coming together to work towards the same goal.

The visual has been used as the banner image on the Gateshead Food Partnership website, emailed to attendees post-event, and included as part of a report sent to councillors.

Gateshead Food Partnership is planning some smaller events discussing the themes from the summit. Watch this space.

Here are the visuals we created

Gateshead Food Partnership - Lim Graphic Recording

We asked participants 'How can you contribute to good food in Gateshead?' and drew their answers on a digital visual

Gateshead Food Partnership - Lim Graphic Recording

We asked participants 'What does good food mean to you?' and drew their answers on a digital visual

Gateshead Council Food Partnership Small Final

We created a large graphic recording on paper that captured the key messages and discussions from throughout the day

The team were slick and professional, producing brilliant artwork and visuals which really lifted the event from 'another conference' to something creative, engaging, and exciting.

Nikki Dravers

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