3.1.10.
Draw a Rounded House
Type Objectives
Group discussion, team building, reflection The activity aims to raise questions and encourage assumptions by participants and essentially enable creativity. Duration 30min Group size 5-10 participants Materials A4 paper & markers Description Each participant has to draw a round-wall house as he or she imagines, having A4 sheets and coloured pencils. The facilitators are not allowed to answer any questions, make clarifications or let the participants speak or inspire each other. After everyone finishes drawing in his/her own way, the facilitators ask the participants to stick the sheets onto the wall and then explain how the drawing was thought. The facilitators collect their answers on the flip chart one by one. Examples of answers: ● You can’t draw such a thing, this was my first thought. ● I drew a sphere. A sphere that looks like a face. A face which does not roll. I made a sphere and then I put a door on it. ● I thought of a castle, as they have round towers. and have no corners! ● I thought it had to be inhabited. Be realistic. I mean, the transparency ... must have many windows! ● Two circles and a pyramid. And the architectural lines must be seen. The debriefing follows. Debriefing & What did you think? Reflection How do we think and how do we understand the information? How do we interpret it? How do we communicate? Why is it difficult when things are not very specific or clear? Are there such topics / subjects in the public space that we do not have enough information about? We all interpret things in our own way, and when it comes to general topics, sensitive topics, controversial topics, topics that may not even have a specific answer ... then things can get really complicated. But whatever the theme or subject we adopt some behaviours (conscious or not - as was the actual drawing) and behind these behaviours there is not the information we have received, but the arguments we have built ourselves, which seem normal to us and in which we believe. And for
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