July 11 @ SAT : Workshop 9: Final touches + Prep for Open House
Duration: 3 hours
Time: 10am - 1pm
Location: SAT
Facilitators: Priyanka, Sahil, Laura, Miley, Lizzie, Jess, Varsha
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Finalize prototypes, and keep the ideas that the students feel the most confident about. (example maze option 2 was more successful, present that)
Get ready for a celebration!
Presenting your work is as important as the work itself. so in addition to presenting ideas + cleaning up class, to get students to start thinking about how to explain their ideas to family and friends who will be visiting.
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Same materials as last week.
Chalk to make labels on the floor (optional for way-finding, but might be fun!)
Video / Audio recorder for interviews
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Tables all moved to the edge of the classroom in single file, to leave a large blank space in the middle, with prototypes scattered around. Cozy corner stays as is.
Warm up (play music)
This might have to happen in the media room where it is a little calmer and less distracting!
Spend 15 minutes sketching in your journals. While children are sketching, pass around the Design Journal documentation form to see if students are open to sharing pages at the triennial.
(Ahmed to document journals, models and prototypes at some point today)
How your prototype turned out
How you want it to look
What is the most important feeling you want a visitor to fee when they enter the installation?
*Ahmed to document journals, models and prototypes ideally this weekend, but it can be later, depending on his schedule.
Main Activity
Step 1: Finalize prototypes (1 hour)
BREAK
Step 2: Arrange them in a way that a visitor can understand. You could use chalk to draw a path that the visitor should take through the workshop and label prototypes.
Step 3: Clean up the workshop!
Conclusion: Evaluation interviews
Video or Audio interviews, based on their comfort. You may have to use your phones so that multiple interviews can happen at once.
Camila’s Advice: Be sure whoever is interviewing asks the kids to say their name at the start before asking the question. From my experience, I would suggest asking each kid 1-2 questions at most. Sometimes, they spiral out a bit, and it's helpful to ask follow-ups that go back to the original question. If they're repetitive, it's okay, too. Example Interview
Tell me a little bit about your experience at the Let's BGT workshops.
Walk me through the process you'll took to design your installation for the triennial.
Tell me one thing you made in this program that you're proud of. Why?
Tell me about a moment in this program when you felt really alive or excited.
If a new group of children was starting this program tomorrow, what would you tell them?
Interviews could happen in two ways, even though I have suggested option 1 for ease.
Opt 1: Facilitator interviews a child, Ahmed records.
Opt 2: Children interview each other and a facilitator + Ahmed films or records