Comics as ContractsMINDFUL CONTRACTS
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Comic Contracts
o Characters represent the partieso Interaction and dialogue represent the termso Parties sign the comic as their Contract
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OUTLINEo Founding Influenceso Comic Contractso Further Researcho Mindful Contracts?
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FOUNDING INFLUENCESo Mindfulnesso Systems Thinkingo Concernso Visualisation - Haapio et al.
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o Mindfulness• Two schools – Eastern & Western• Applications in Law• Mindful Contracts?
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o Systems Thinking• Systems Thinking• The 5th Discipline
• Personal Mastery• Mental Models• Building Shared Vision• Team learning
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o Concerns• Vulnerable employees• The Role of Contracts
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“The employment relationship within the contract model operates as a frameworkfor both the protection of workers and the guaranteeing of the exercise offundamental rights at work.”
"The ILO promotes the adoption and enforcement of model employment contracts insectors in which low- and middle-skilled migrants are particularly vulnerable toexploitative working conditions."
International Labour Conference, 92nd Session, 2004, Report VI, Towards a fair dealfor migrant workers in the global economy
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•774 million adults lacked basic literacy skills
•493 million of the global illiterate populationwere women.
•The test:“The child is reading a book”
“The rains came late this year”
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)ADULT AND YOUTH LITERACY National, regional and global trends, 1985-2015
o Concerns• Vulnerable employees• The Role of Contracts
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o Visualisation – Haapio et al• In relation to Systems Thinking• Text remains dominant• Why can’t pictures be dominant?
• Characters represent the parties
• Interaction and dialogue represent the terms
• Parties sign the comic as their Contract
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o Example: Domestic Worker Contract
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o Example: Fruit Picker Contract
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o SWOT – Comic ContractsStrengths Weaknesses
Easy to Understand Little precedent
Conveys feeling Cooperation
Mindful Contracts
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Opportunities Threats
Contract Illiterate people Institutional Resistance
More meaningful IP Cultural sensitivity
Scale
POSITIVES CHALLENGES
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o SWOT – Comic ContractsStrengths Weaknesses
Easy to Understand Little precedent
Conveys feeling Cooperation
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Opportunities Threats
Contract Illiterate & Dyslexic people Institutional Resistance
More meaningful IP Cultural sensitivity
Scale
POSITIVES CHALLENGES
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“… difficulties with reading can be accommodated indomestic, learning and work setting. This can include:Providing pictorial material such as graphics, drawingsand cartoons”
“… The Dyslexic Adult: Interventions and Outcomes - An Evidence-based ApproachBy David McLoughlin, Carol Leather
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“I’m dyslexic…..If you know someone who is a strugglingreader, give them a comic. You might change their life.”
http://panels.net/2014/10/24/dyslexia-and-comics/
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“Dyslexia - 700 million children and adults worldwideat risk of life-long illiteracy and social exclusion”Dyslexia International Report - Version Date: April 17, 2014 The Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University.
o SWOT – Comic ContractsStrengths Weaknesses
Easy to Understand Little precedent
Conveys feeling Cooperation
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Opportunities Threats
Contract Illiterate & Dyslexic people Institutional Resistance
More meaningful IP Cultural sensitivity
Work for Graphic Artists
Themed / Licensed contracts
Scaling
POSITIVES CHALLENGES
Further researcho Design improvements – Best practice
o Empirical Research
• Readability, Comprehension, Memorability?
• Performance / Positive Organisational Change (POS)?
o Animations & voice overs
o Purely “Audible” agreements
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Mindful Contracts?o Engaging with the process - more awareness
o More transparent
o More equitable contracts
o Better relationships - less conflict
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