Offering Map and themes for storybook

The Offering Map was a tool that was used to chart all the gathered information, research and analysis on one plane. It helped me connect everything back to the topic of Biodiversity and observe these links to understand the many themes that can be covered in the storybook.

Using this tool, I could draw the following inferences. They were then associated with the six dimensions of understanding to look at the nature of these themes. 

Dimensions of Understanding.

When decoding a complex subject such as Biodiversity, it helps to adopt a new perspective of looking at things. A Whole New Mind is a book by Donald H. Pink that helps me do just that. This book enlists Six Essential Senses that come into play when thinking creatively. These senses are Design, Story, Symphony, Empathy, Play and Meaning.

I've adopted these senses as the dimensions of understanding the design process that can be followed to create a storybook. Since the outcome of the project is defined already, the path to it can be paved using these dimensions. 

Using the six dimensions, I have tried to strategize the process and topics that can be addressed through this storybook in the following mind-map.

These dimensions lend themselves in enriching a designer-user contribution to the project, as seen in the actor's map below.