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===== Improv Exercises ===== | ===== Improv Exercises ===== | ||
- | Improv exercises are meant to encourage spontaneity, | + | Improv exercises are meant to encourage spontaneity, |
- | There are thousands of improv exercises available, that can be applied in as many different settings. On this page we will only mention a few techniques that we repeatedly use in FoAM's futuring workshops, with links to other improv resources online and in books. | + | See also [[Improvisation]] |
- | ---- | + | There are thousands of improv exercises available, that can be applied in as many different settings. On this page we will only mention a few techniques that we repeatedly use in FoAM's futuring workshops, with links to other improv resources online and in books. The box is an example of (status) transactions, |
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+ | ==== The box ==== | ||
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+ | Exercise for becoming aware of the participants' | ||
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+ | === Process === | ||
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+ | * Step 1: Explain the improvisation: | ||
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+ | * Step 2: When the questions have been answered, ask the participants to stand in a circle and experience the sensations of standing still and noticing what thoughts and feelings emerge in their minds. | ||
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+ | * Step 3: One by one, give the participants a ' | ||
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+ | * Step 4: Observe what happens and support the participants if you see they are blocked or uncomfortable (give them another box, suggests they lift it above their heads to feel the weight, shake it, put their hands in it...) | ||
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+ | * Step 5: After some minutes, pull one participant from the group and ask: "Can you open the box please? What’s in the box? Put your hand in a bit deeper... is there anything else else is in the box? How about if you shake it? Did anything come loose? And if you smell it?" The facilitator notes down the contents of the box, thanks the participant and invites him/her to sit on the perimeter and observe the others. One by one all the participants should have a chance to discover what is in their boxes. | ||
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+ | * Step 6: Once everyone has spoken and is sitting down, the exercise is over. Read out the list of gifts from everyone' | ||
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+ | ==== Tableau Vivant ==== | ||
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+ | A Tableau Vivant or a ' | ||
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+ | === Process === | ||
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+ | * Step 1: Either you provide a situation to be portrayed, or invite the participants to chose one themselves (for example from a set of scenarios they developed as part of their futuring process). | ||
+ | * Step 2: Invite participants to discuss the situation and design a still image that captures its essence. If appropriate they can design a ' | ||
+ | * Step 3: Rehearse the tableau vivant and if needed make adjustments | ||
+ | * Step 4: Perform the tableau vivant in front of an ' | ||
+ | * Step 5: Invite the members of the audience to interpret the image. | ||
+ | * Step 6: After they come out of their tableau, allow the ' | ||
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+ | ==== A word at a time ==== | ||
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+ | This exercise, based on the surrealist exercise //cadavre exquis// helps the participants to warm-up to collective storytelling and allows creative inhibitions to drop. | ||
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+ | === Process === | ||
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+ | Step 1: Explain the process: "This is a storytelling exercise, where each person offers one word to the person next to them, who gives another word to the next person and so on. The aim is to build sentences and a story together, one word at a time. Don't worry about saying something clever, just say the first thing that comes to mind and watch the unexpected narrative develop." | ||
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+ | Step 2: Begin with a word and ' | ||
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+ | Step 3: Let the story develop for a few rounds and feel when it is time to stop. The participants might stop by themselves, or if you find the story is nearing its end, put an end to it yourself. | ||
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+ | Step 4: Reflect on the experience. | ||
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