Activities-2019

Thursday Evening Activities

On Thursday early evening, 4-6pm, we are suspending the ‘normal’ programme and have created a number of longer, active and explorative sessions, in addition to the foyer and cafe options above.

Some of these activities are capped: booking sheets for all will be available on reception, so sign up early if you like the look of one in particular.

1. Student Escape Rooms
2. Deep Green LARP
3. Climate Crisis
4. LSP Reflection Session
5. Playful Print Workshop

Student Escape Rooms [groups of 4]

University of Leicester students

As part of a collaboration between the University’s strategic Learning Communities project and Playful Learning, teams of students from across a range of subjects have been developing escape rooms around the theme of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Come along and pit your wits against four of the best rooms from the project, and meet the students who created them.

 

Deep Green LARP [20]

Emmylou Laird; Jim Thompson

Deep Green is a short Live Action Role Playing (LARP) game that pitches players into the task of being responsible for the last ever natural living things. The pressure of the tasks they must complete makes every choice one of delicate balance and compromise, not all character priorities are the same. If this is not difficult enough, outside forces and the pressure of time will challenge the character’s wit and wisdom. All choices have consequences. The game is suitable for those completely new to LARP as well as experienced LARPers. No prior preparation is required. Just come along prepared to jump into a roleplaying game and see how well you can navigate the challenges the situation creates for you.

Climate Crisis [40]

Darren Green, Liz Cable

Climate Crisis is a format for team-based learning through game play that is known as a ‘megagame’ by games hobbyists. 20-40 players are organised into teams of 3-4 players to explore climate change modelling and the difficulties of climate change policy-making. This session will allow you to experience a Mega-game and consider how you can use it for playful learning.

A Challenge

I am eager for opportunities to run the Climate Crisis Megagame in an educational setting and would welcome anyone to contact me if they would like to host a session of the game. My email address is crisisgames.info@gmail.com

LSP Reflection Session [12]

Stephen Dann

This workshop will be an opportunity to experience the Lego Serious Play protocol in action across the course of a 90 minute session, whilst also reflecting on your experience of the conference so far. Participants will experience the hand-mind connection, use of visual metaphors, shared meaning making and experience the process of surfacing knowledge, in metacognitive reflections on their experience of Playful Learning.

Resources and Challenge:

1)      A link to “Facilitating co-creation experience in the classroom with Lego Serious Play”: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1441358218300569

2)      A challenge: “Where can Lego  Serious Play workshops best enable student experience? Early in semester to form social bonds and unified teams, or late in semester to explore commonality and differences?” – discuss on the Playful Learning Association site.

3)     My slides

Playful Print Workshop [12]

The Leicester Print Workshop

Leicester Print Workshop are a creative charity who support artists and print makers to use a variety of traditional physical printing methods. We are delighted that LPW are helping to make our custom-printed event lists at the conference; and in this session, a master printmaker will help you to turn your best conference experiences into typographic art.