Facilitated by Mick & Billie

For our hands on activity we wanted drinking straws but we didn't have enough in stock for the activity… so we got them to make paper tubes while they listened to the content presentation in parts 1- 4 of the workshop. We gamified this activity by making it a competition to see which group could make the most while they listened and engaged in the discussion. its kind of a good busy hands strategy that met our practical needs and got them working as teams.

Discussed how each week we'll start by looking at the well and reviewing what we and other teams have been doing

• one of the students brought Billie and anyone who was away last week up to speed on what we did last week.
• Mick told participants about what had happened with the QUT Students. Emphasising how much some of the groups in this crew loved things they had contributed to the well
• Billie told them about the work that had started with the weekend crew.

Discussed how we had talked about some home work…. though I hadn't really expected anyone would be that excited about. A couple of students had brief looks but didn't have anything that much to offer. instead we looked at another resource that we felt was up to date and trustworthy the importance of play in childrens' learning and development from starting blocks the commonwealth Australian Children's Education and Care Quality Authority.

this broke down childrens' learning and development into 4 key areas and outlined the dimensions of these. It also gave examples of the types of play activities that can stimulate this development.

1. Physical development
2. Social and emotional development
3. Cognitive development
4. Literacy and numeracy development

After this Mick presented what he thought were the goals for the day… and how these interfaced with the long to medium term goals of the group and the greater grumpus project. mick used the weekend Crew brief powerpoint to present these long term goals.

Fun and problem solving

1. We want people to have Fun and rediscover the joy of creative play

2. Some people get a buzz out of creative problem solving

Make great art

3. We want to create a visually dynamic and interactive sculptural installation that:

1 Respectfully responds and builds on the ideas of the children that have contributed to the Well, 2. Addresses the literacy, cognitive and social development needs of children. 3. Captures the diverse voices of the people engaged in the project. 4. Is built out of reusable, recyclable and easily accessible (off the shelf) materials– primarily cardboard and hotglue. 5. Safe 6. Explores the use the digital media and fabrication tools available at The Edge 7. But also considers fabrication methods that don’t require specialist equipment available at the Edge. 8. Connect and compliment the other installations that are being built by other groups.

Objectives for individuals

4. We want people to develop skills and experience and become confident in their ability to express their creativity and make things for themselves.

5. We want everyone to meet new people and possibly even find their tribe.

How we want to work

6. We want to work collaboratively and for participants to be able engage in all aspects of the design, prototype and fabrication of installation and to be able to move in and out of project when they need to

Documentation

7. We want everyone who worked on the project to be involved in the documentation of this process so we can capture what we learn as we progress, and make this available other people who might want to replicate this process in their own communities.

Advocacy

8. We want participants to help us promote Libraries as an important public resource and a space for collect and explore our cultural memory and a place creating community and making the future.

We then presented what our short term goals were:

From there, over the next 8 weeks, we build this into a giant sculpture.

always with the list of other goals from the brief in the back of our heads.

we also discussed how it would be great for us to have a channel to communicate and curate ideas between thursday session

More about all this in the post workshop report

To prepare for the maquette making process we, once workshoped the key features of the concept we chose last week. One student, Matilda acted as scribe and kept a list of

1. The key features and
2. any new ideas we had for expanding the concept( Maybes).

Participants were asked to consider the biology/ magical mechanics of the creature ( what kept it alive, what did it need to survive thrive - how did it move, defend itself etc, What were its cultural significance or background )

The room then broke up into 4 groups and were given the opportunity to choose one task (groups who made the most “straws” go to choose first)

1. Dragon's internal structure (skeleton) made out of “straws” and tape.
2. Koi fish's internal structure (skeleton) made out of “straws” and tape.
3. Dragon's external appearance (like a dead specimen that you'd find preserved in a bottle) made out of Playdo.
4. Koi fish's external appearance (like a dead specimen that you'd find preserved in a bottle) made out of Playdo.

At the end of this process members of each group went around and looked at the other teams progress and reported to the room. Matilda minuted this too.

https://brisbaneshs.padlet.org/kcook1351/bits3g25zfjwqvhq

The Thing from The Well that our design links back to