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IRI THESys Lunch Talk 17 Jan 2020 Trapped between barriers OR Flowing despite barriers? Nadine Schrder & Nikhil Chaudhary Lunch Talk on a Scientific Comic Nadine Schrder PhD on: Polycentricity and the Implementation of the EU Water

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IRI THESys Lunch Talk 17 Jan 2020

Trapped between barriers OR Flowing despite barriers?

Nadine Schröder & Nikhil Chaudhary Lunch Talk on a Scientific Comic

Nadine Schröder PhD on: Polycentricity and the Implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive in Germany Environmental Engineering B.Sc./ M.Sc. Integrated Natural Resource Management M.Sc. Nikhil Chaudary Architect, Urban Planner, Artist Public Policy M.A.

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I compare German Cases of local WFD implementation

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Cases

  • Per federal state: various WFD addressees to cover strong organizational

variations within a state

  • Focus on surface waters and hydromorphology and connectivity measures (in

contrast to chemical water quality measures)

Data collection

  • Policy documents and websites
  • Participatory observation in participation/ coordination processes
  • Semi-structured Interviews (overall 66, Ø 2h) e.g. in Hesse with:
  • Ministry (3), technical and scientific authority (1)
  • District Government (1)
  • Municipality (2 different)
  • lower water authority (1 + a short one)
  • Waste water association (1)
  • GFG Fortbildung GmbH (1) organizes water neighborhoods
  • Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union Hesse (NABU) (1)
  • W hat are the barriers for local W FD im plem entation?
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Thoughts and experiments are illustrated here along the creation process of the comic

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  • The idea and initial drawing experiments
  • Storytelling
  • The audience
  • Text vs. visualizations
  • Experimenting with versions
  • Steps from the idea to the final artwork
  • Production process
  • A communication instrument
  • Comic Workshop by Nikhil (Jan 2019)
  • 9 work meetings (April-Sep 2019) + 1 celebration meeting (Dec

2019) at various places

  • Final artwork done with German translation (13 Nov 2019),

afterwards start of production process for publishing

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The idea was born at the IRI Comic workshop one year ago - 17 Jan 2019

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  • The interview setting to narrate the story
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  • … and was happy that Anne wrote in February 2019 that the IRI
  • rganized funding for three scientific comic projects!
  • I had no prior experiences with creating comics and the technical

facilities for giving it a professional look. The Chance to concentrate on the story! I started with some drawing experiments on my own…

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I imagined the implementation barriers as a cascade already before the comic project

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  • flowing and connecting
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Barriers should look decreasing signalling their importance for decision-making

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Who is the audience?

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  • With page 1 we needed to discuss how much background

information can be given with the comic itself…

  • … and how much we need to expect to reach out for readers with

prior knowledge.

Nikhil: “Always thinking of who our audience and how to communicate in their terms was something we always kept in mind.”

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Getting started with texting was not easy…

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  • Sequence of text production: page-plot and

comic-script

  • How to tell the story?
  • Who can tell what? Overall insights vs.

emotions and personal insights

  • How does it sounds natural when the main

character is ‚speaking‘?

  • How to name the character? In German and

English culture?

  • A transcribed interview helped with

examples!

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… but later it was flowing from page to page

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  • What is better described in text and what is better visualized?

Nikhil: “We extensively used rapid prototyping, …

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Especially abstract issues started with text before we found visual metaphors…

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… know-how, lack of personnel, bureaucracy…

… and making creative decisions along the way in terms of what works best to communicate the technical matters - until arriving at the final form. …

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Experimenting with different visualization ideas was fun but also exhausting

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  • … from statistics to visualization:

... Cake diagram – cake – eaten up – party with eating guests …

  • … but how to keep a river flowing through a table?

…I enjoyed this co-creation sessions a

  • lot. This is also what is called 'design

thinking' in the innovation field.”

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It takes several steps from idea generation and drafting to the artwork …

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Nikhil: “There were phases when [Nadine] were more inclined to showcasing most information, whereas I was pulling the flow towards the narrative or 'story' side of things. We found a balance along the way.”

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… followed by revisions and colouring the artwork

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  • staying the expert in ‚technical‘ details
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Finding a good end was very hard work…

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  • … probably because the real life is similarly difficult
  • We found the title at the very end of the journey!
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The production process is similar to but not the same as for a usual paper

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  • Preface (by Anne Dombrowski), Abstract and Acknowledgements

like in a usual paper

  • Proof-reading of all written parts of the publication(s) – Thanks to

Timothy Moss!

  • CVs and (semi-)drawn portraits – the authors behind the comic

Photo by Andreas Renkewitz Photo by Udayabhanu Prakash Vaddi

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The comic IS a communication instrument already before publication

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  • Spontaneous idea to show the comic draft on a nature

conservationist‘s forum on the WFD and to the interviewee

  • For this: translation to German (tricky: expressions, text lengths)
  • Easily possible to collect feedback before publication
  • It generates interest and may be a door-opener for talks
  • Can be read in short time as a basis for an in-depth talk
  • Parts of it may be used for illustrating other presentations
  • It is worthwhile to give this format a chance! I have learned a lot!

Nikhil: “Making it bilingual is a decision I supported (even if it required more work from my side), because then the piece is used to directly engage with the stakeholders (like [the] poster at the nature conservation event and even [the interviewee] wanting to show it to others. Would not have worked if it were 'English only'.”

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It is always good to have a nice and intelligent artist at the fingertips

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Nikhil: “Both of us were

  • n the same 'page',

with visualisation skills. Helped a lot to graphically compose each page together. This may not have worked well if [Nadine] were a typical scientist not used to thinking visually :) ”

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Thank you!

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Cite as: Schröder, N.J.S.; Chaudhary, N. 2020: Trapped between barriers OR Flowing despite barriers? THESys Discussion Paper No. 2020-1. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin,

  • Germany. Pp. 1-13.

Links to the comic will be provided on: https: / / sustainability- governance.net/ people/ nadine-schroeder/