Low-carbon development in Africa: How to visually create impact

Coralie Legrand is a freelance motion designer and illustrator, focusing on projects around sustainability, science communication and social impact. Her keynote speech: “Low-carbon development in East Africa: How to visually create impact” will showcase storytelling as a tool for research communication, with the purpose of presenting research outputs and making the results accessible to wider audiences.

Animated videos on renewable energy and dams

Coralie will showcase two animated videos that she is co-creating together with SEI’s Matthew Osborne for ‘Low-carbon development in East Africa’ to support the research in its goal to reach practitioners in the renewable energy space. 

The first video explains how the flood recession farming technique is being impacted by renewable energy through large dams. The second video takes an overall perspective on the research project and focuses on the hidden costs of renewable energy. Additionally, she will also talk about a few other projects she created outside of SEI. 

Agenda 7 April 

13.00 Welcome remarks Janet Vähämäki, Director of SweDev and                            Development and Aid Policy team leader at SEI

13.05 Introduction Matthew Osborne, Research Fellow, SEI

13.10 Low-carbon development in East Africa: How to visually                            create impact Coralie Legrand 

13.40 Audience questions to the keynote speaker Moderated by Matthew             Osborne, Research Fellow at SEI and Ylva Rylander, Communications                 Officer at SEI and for SweDev. 

13.55 Concluding remarks Janet Vähämäki, Director of SweDev and                       Development and Aid Policy team leader at SEI

About Coralie Legrand 

Coralie Legrand is a freelance motion designer and illustrator from Brussels, Belgium. Coralie uses storytelling and visual communication to break down complexity into digestible content to help create a wider impact with scientific research. Coralie will talk about the added value of design, illustration and animation in communication tools.
More about Coralie on www.coralielegrand.com