Week 1 - Lecture and Workshop

Lecture

What happened ?

During the lecture we had to model four elements and combine them with one out of two emotions. After we finished the four elements we had to choose one of the elements we made and destroy the rest.

The final element we had chosen was water. I had modelled a "bucket" that symbolized water and within the bucket i had put some water from my water bottle that I had for lunch. The idea behind this was that the blue modelling clay "bucket" symbolized water but it also WAS water.

Then we had to bring our models to the front and eventually we had to tell something about what we had made and I told everyone that the bucket not only symbolizes water but it also is water and water is one of the most vital things us humans needs and it can bring joy and happiness as well (swimming, surfing etc) In other words a very versatile liquid substance.

There were some other models made who looked obviously far better then our "bucket", but once we had to vote it seemed a lot of the other models got a lot of votes, ours got voted for as last and we actually won !! That was hilarious! Obviously I had modelled this bucket with water more for comical effect but the idea behind it was not too bad either.

Thoughts, attitudes

One of the girls in another group shouted that it was not fair that we had won because theirs was far better modelled. I was surprised she showed such a heavy reaction to a simple task like this she seemed annoyed that her model got destroyed. Even so annoyed that after the lecture she tipped our "bucket" over so that the water spilled over the table.

I mean common!

Goal

It seemed that this task was aimed at our creativity but also our ability to work as an group and to think creative as an group.

Implications

It was fun in the end because our simple model had won, but I did not have the feeling that I learned something though. Ive done million of these kind of group exercises in previous courses to improve on; working in a group, communication skills, group creativity, brainstorm sessions, social skills etc.

nothing new here.

Changes

none.


Workgroup

We formed a group during the workshop and exchanged details. We already had a little brainstrom session on the first assignment and picked picasso to work on for our essay.

Unfortuantley our group is rather large.. Six people !! At the moment things seem to be fine and everyone is doing their part lets hope it stays that way.