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4.4. Making in the club (digital) tinkering, crafting and exploring

Session Objectives

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

  • Understand/develop the experience and exploration in the art of Making.

  • Differentiate different roles in a group.

  • Reflect on fix and growing mindsets.

Duration

02h 00min

Group size

Set by facilitator

Materials needed

Handout with mindset, lego pieces, (news)paper, pictures of examples, tape

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Session Description 

This interactive session invites participants to explore creativity and teamwork through hands-on activities. Using simple materials and playful challenges, they experiment, solve problems, and learn by doing, while reflecting on collaboration, innovation, and the role of facilitation in supporting group learning.

Duration: 20min

Group size: Pairs

Materials needed: Handout with mindset

Part 1:

  • Person 1 suggests a trip around the world, Person 2 responds to each suggestion with: Yes, BUT…

    (Expl. A: We fly to New York. B: BUT we have no money. A: Let’s walk then…. B: BUT…)

Part 2:

  • Person 1 suggests a trip around the world, Person 2 responds: Yes, AND…

    (Expl. A: We fly to New York. B: Yes, and there we take the train to San Francisco…)

Reflection on the mindset

Objectives:

  • Experience the different options of answering a question

  • Explore fix and growing mindset

Duration: 60min

Group size: Groups of 3 or 4 and full group

Materials needed: Anything which is available, foil, glue, natural materials, paper, recycling material, string, wood

Part 1:

  • Ask the participants in advance to bring small material with them, recycling material or anything they can find at home.

  • Develop a vehicle that rolls as far as possible off a ramp.

    Guideline: Vehicle must consist of at least 5 parts, completely free choice of material.

Part 2:

  • Draw a line on the floor, change your vehicle in a way that it rolls as close to the line as possible. You can also start from scratch! Again: Vehicle must consist of at least 5 parts.

    Reflection on the group work

Objectives:

  • Learn to construct a common tool.

  • Experience winning or loosing together.

Which role do you have? Are you a facilitator or part of a group?

Duration: 20min

Group size: All together

Materials needed: Pictures of examples

Objectives: Get to know different forms of Making.

Different forms of “Making”

Duration: 20min

Group size: Groups

Materials needed: (News)paper and tape

  • Build a tower as high as possible out of (news) paper, which is stable for at least 1 minute

  • After 10 minutes we look at the different solutions of the different groups. They the groups have another 10 minutes to modify

Objectives: Experience different roles in a group and learn how to build something together.

Duration: 20min

Group size: Groups

Materials needed: Lego Pieces

Objectives: Method improving creative thinking and communication, by building three-dimensional models of the participants ideas and tell stories about their models.