Story Mapping: An Introduction

Visual learning and storytelling have existed longer than spoken languages have been in existence, from when cavemen painted stick figures on cave walls, people have used the visual versions of storytelling to transcend barriers and work to bring people into the same context for the understanding of what is being presented. 

During the early 2010s, I was introduced to the concept of knowledge mapping, an effort to organize various clusters of knowledge or capabilities within groups or organizations to help streamline efforts to spread that knowledge. Out of those that were working on such problems came Open Knowledge Maps, primarily focused on organizing the world’s scientific expertise into a visual matrix of who had the best perspective on a given topic. 

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