This workshop was developed as part of the Teaching to Transgress Toolbox programme by the working group “Questioning the Notion of Neutrality” in educational settings. We facilitated the workshop for the first time in December 2020 at “Rencontres et ateliers : les pédagogies critiques en écoles d’art” at Villa Arson, in France.
Read more about the context of this workshop or watch the related interviews that we recorded. Read also about Workshop II, Radical Inclusivity facilitated at Paris College of Art, in May 2021.
Outline
Online
2 hours
For 25-30 participants
Download workshop slides as PDF
Check-in
15 mins
❶ Before starting, check language barriers and access needs
❷ We introduce ourselves: names and pronouns
❸ Camera policy
- Honour your needs, turn it on or off
- Get consent on recording
❹ Introduction round
- Names
- Pronouns
- Emotional Check-in with cat memes
Which image represents how you feel right now?
❺ Facilitate positioning games to check people's attitude to and perspective on the topic
- Show slides below each asking one question and offering a choice of answers
- Ask participants to move their mouse to the answer they resonate with.
- Technical note: presentation should allow everyone to see everyone's mouse positions.
- Depending on time, you can ask if anyone wants to comment on their positioning, but the positioning alone also works without comments
Download workshop slides as PDF
Input
[30 mins]
❶ Super-short presentation “What we have been doing and how.”
❷ Show excerpts from the project interviews
❸ Sharing the project findings and topics visualized in the following collectively created mind map:
Presentation slide, mindmap
Break
[5 mins]
Discussion in smaller groups
[40 mins]
❶ Create break-out rooms with five people each
❷ Facilitate deeper intro round
[10 mins]
- What is your motivation for joining this workshop?
- How confident do you feel about discussing the topic and how familiar are you with it?
- If you wish, feel free to share your own experiences around these questions.
❸ Facilitate group discussion
[15 min]
- Do you see these problems in your environment?
- Share and collect real-life examples from different contexts.
❹ Facilitate collective writing exercise
[15 min]
- Prepare one collaborative writing pad for each group
- Brainstorm, suggest what could be done about the problems discussed?
- Get inspired by the question “what are ten things that all institutions, people in power, teachers could do tomorrow to begin moving in the right direction?”
Reconvening in the big group
[20 mins]
Sharing from the small group discussions, sharing the real-life examples and/or the ten things from the collaborative writing pad.
Wrap-up
[10 mins]
❶ Feedback with the feedback-hand method [see slide].
Ask participants to use the chat (if big group or not much time left) or speak out loud (if small group or enough time left):
- thumb = what was good
- pointy finger = something I want to point out
- middle finger = something that was shit /less great
- ring finger = what I will take with me (option to add non-funny joke about marriage ring)
❷ Emotional checkout round: same as at the start, a slide with different images of cats
