ABSTRACT
This chapter is about facilitating personal and professional development through photography. It primarily focuses on the author’s work with an international company who commissioned expensive processing plants throughout the world. The problem, which an application of Photocards was designed to solve, involved project managers who were normally engineers needing to have more of the language of the various stakeholders to further ensure that the upfront design met their needs. There was a danger that if the plant was mainly designed from an engineering perspective, subsequent changes once commissioning had started could easily lead to significantly increased costs in the reconstruction. Photocards were used in one-to-one meetings with project managers (on this occasion, I used www.spectrovisio.net/eng/#cards) to enable them to develop their language and be able to communicate with stakeholders from the initiation of the planning process. Further examples are briefly given of the use of Photocards to enable groups to explore difficult topics and uses in discussion groups, training, and team development.
