Michael Gallis, an expert on developing multisystem approaches to strategic planning, gave one of the more inspiring lightening talks yesterday at the GeoDesign Summit. His firm works to address issues of economic development, infrastructure, urbanization, environment and transportation issues with an approach that takes into account the “global network.”
He stood before the audience without slides and proclaimed that it’s time for action because issues of global change are far more problematic than we imagine and are moving at a pace that is greater than we imagine. The threats to our society require a national strategy.
He related the work that his firm has done with the National Surface Transportation Revenue and Study Commission in the prior administration, and about the impact of geospatial visualization that conveyed increasing levels of dimensionality and increasing connectivity to drive consensus among a contentious group. He spoke of GeoDesign as a visual language that transforms pictures into a language of information.
As a language, it’s important for GeoDesign to have structure and syntax, and must convey meanings. He spoke of the importance of images for executive-level decisions for their power to immediately convey relationships. And he closed with the thought that GeoDesign provides the tools that we need to produce change – evolving into something truly meaningful.
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