Mind map by Mark van Huystee
Material: marker and pencil on 225 gr. paper, 42 × 30 cm.

Mind maps
Mind maps can be used to develop concepts. You start by taking a central design, and you associate from there. Kortjakje’ adventures take place in a dream world in which the boundaries between the real world and the imaginary world start to disappear. How do you translate such a concept into a theatre production using projections and a stage set? To start the mind map, Mark used a cloud as a symbol representing thoughts and dreams, taking it from there to draw, associate, and arrange various ideas.
Would you like to make your own mind maps? Mind Mapping, a book by Tony & Barry Buzan is a good starting point. Digital mind mapping is another option, see ThinkBuzan.


Mind map, detail of central node.


Detail from the above mind map.

 
Mind mapping workshop at the Oostpoort primary school in Delft (not a Kortjakje project), February 2010. Mark created this giant mind map to explain the principles of mind mapping and visualisation. Over 200 children aged 6 to 10 then set to work creating their own mind maps.