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Akihiro Mizuuchi has molded chocolate Lego Bricks and built a number of nice bears and bricksets. Something to consider – eat your buildings after your Lego Serious Play session.

David Gauntlett has written an interesting blog post about Micro Lego Serious Play

LEGO Serious Play is a way of using LEGO bricks to express feelings and ideas. It is used by adults (mostly), to

A webinar on Lego Serious Play will be held by Elisabetta Frick and Lorenzo Cantoni on August, 28th. The webinar is organized by Eduhub, the community for new learning technologies at Swiss institutions of higher education.

Lego Serious Play USI Lugano

Since 2006, some researchers at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI, Lugano) have been interested in the use of LSP. In particular, two applications of the LSP methodology have been developed:

URL (User Requirements with Lego), which helps to elicit user requirements for online communication applications.
LLED (LEGO Learning Design Experience), which helps to design teaching and learning experiences.

In this webinar the Lego Serious Play is first introduced, in which context and for which aims it could be used. Then, it will mainly focus on LLED, a specific application of LSP, which allows teams to design learning experiences creatively and collaboratively, involving all the stakeholders of the project.

Organization:

Presenters: Elisabetta Frick & Lorenzo Cantoni, Università della Svizzera italiana
Moderator: Nathalie Roth, SWITCH
Date: Thursday, August 28, 2014
Time: 11h00 – 12h00 (Central European Time)
Place: online with SWITCHinteract

Registration is open until August 21, 2014

Tom De Castella has written for BBC News Magazine a story about Lego’s moves on gender stereotypes.

!–more–Three new Lego figures – all female scientists – have been unveiled. But why does the toy maker’s

Handy ideas on how to improve your Lego Serious Play sessions.

In some Lego Serious Play sessions you might want to place your bricks in a large heap so that the participants would have a part of the fun

We are looking for new contributors to the Serious Play Pro website. If you want then you can just start or join a discussion easily on our community forum website immediately after registration. 

We would also be happy to publish the materials that our readers would find interesting on the blog front page. For example:

Interesting blog posts about play, playfulness, facilitation,
Case studies – stories, videos or photos of your facilitation events,
Reviews about books on facilitation and playful techniques,
Research review posts – covering interesting new avenues that has been studied recently.

We hope that this could bring some new debates to our growing community and provide visibility to new and active bloggers. Just send a message to Marko.

Serious Play Pro Website Statistics – Number of Annual Visitors July 2013-July 2014Since the introduction of LSP Open Source we are glad to witness that the number of facilitators has grown steadily. The Serious Play Pro community was established just four years ago and today we are a true community which covers all the corners of the globe.

It is fun to observe that the coverage of the visitors (the table below) is really almost global. See the annual statistics table of the different countries and the annual number of unique visits from that country. All the regions are well represented among the people interested in the Lego Serious Play methodology.

In average, 66.1 unique visitors come to our site every day nowadays (up from 44.1 visitors/day in 2013 and 35.4 visitors/day in 2012). Given that 2/3 of those visitors are new visitors, it means that any post published are likely read in a month by 2000 different people.

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Country
Visitors

1
United States
5,739

2
Spain
2,257

3
Netherlands
2,168

4
United Kingdom
2,035

5
Germany
1,907

6
Mexico
1,843

7
Canada
1,369

8
Estonia
1,326

9
Colombia
1,210

10
France
1,177

11
Denmark
1,161

12
Australia
852

13
Singapore
752

14
Chile
750

15
Italy
648

16
Turkey
572

17
South Korea
569

18
Belgium
563

19
Switzerland
507

20
Brazil
481

21
Japan
462

22
Peru
414

23
Russia
369

24
South Africa
335

25
India
321

26
Argentina
313

27
China
307

28
Malaysia
294

29
Hong Kong
273

30
Sweden
238

31
Ecuador
229

32
Philippines
228

33
Thailand
217

34
Venezuela
207

35
Austria
201

36
Finland
196

37
Portugal
188

38
Poland
183

39
Indonesia
176

40
New Zealand
169

41
Taiwan
168

42
Greece
143

43
Israel
135

44
Ireland
127

45
Norway
124

46
Costa Rica
112

47
United Arab Emirates
106

48
Czech Republic
93

49
Slovenia
92

50
Romania
89

51
Hungary
88

52
Kosovo
88

53
Lithuania
87

54
Saudi Arabia
83

55
Guatemala
80

56
Bolivia
76

57
Egypt
68

58
Panama
65

59
Ukraine
51

60
Slovakia
44

61
Croatia
42

62
Vietnam
42

63
Kazakhstan
40

64
Serbia
34

65
Cyprus
30

66
Iran
28

67
Jordan
28

68
Pakistan
26

69
Puerto Rico
25

70
Luxembourg
21

71
Bulgaria
20

72
Uruguay
20

73
Latvia
19

74
Qatar
19

75
Belarus
15

76
Dominican Republic
15

77
Kenya
15

78
Macedonia (FYROM)
13

79
El Salvador
13

80
Lebanon
12

81
Trinidad and Tobago
12

82
Paraguay
10

83
Bahrain
9

84
Honduras
9

85
Mauritius
9

86
Nigeria
9

87
Tunisia
9

88
Morocco
8

89
Macau
8

90
Albania
7

91
Cote d’Ivoire
7

92
Ghana
7

93
Jamaica
7

94
Malta
7

95
Nicaragua
7

96
Iceland
6

97
Kuwait
6

98
Sri Lanka
5

99
Moldova
5

I have today revised the layout of the community website to make it better readable by mobile devices. Please leave your comments on any issues that you notice on the website functionality.

Laura Seargeant Richardson has published an inspiring video about how the rules of the play can be modified and left to the player’s own devices to achieve more proactive results. Something to also contemplate

Audioboo.FM has published a Radio Interview with Andy Priestner on Lego Serious Play. You may follow him over twitter at @PriestLib
listen to ‘Andy Priestner on LEGO Serious Play (Week 8)’ on Audioboo
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During recent days, a couple of new Slideshares have been created on Lego Serious Play methodology. The first one is created by the Assistant Professor Arindam Basu of University of Canterbury at Christchurch, New Zealand. In his presentation he combines design thinking with Lego Serious Play approach and demonstrates how the combination can be used in order to achieve flow in solution finding process.

Another Slideshare is in French language. Published by a SlideShare user “Chinkie75” – it shows some photos of tower and bridge building exercise and a number of metaphors as well.

The following article was published on the website of Independent Free Press Canada.

Chances are you grew up with LEGO. Perhaps it was your favourite toy, or a building tool that invoked your imagination to

After the post where the Lego Serious Play Starter Kit (art.no. 2000414) was unpacked, recently another video has been uploaded to YouTube where a Dutch facilitator Rick Lindeman demonstrates the contents of the

Dotti Toellner and Cori Moore Video on Lego Serious Play Facilitation workshop at Lift 2014 conference. They wrote about the event the following.

What happened at Lift14: Well, we sure had some serious fun – it’s amazing what you can do with such energetic and inspiring participants! The fully booked session kicked off with some skill building exercises, teaching our lively liftonians how to (literally) build metaphors, express abstract ideas with 3D models and collaborate through storymaking. Then the real work started as we addressed the question: “What does it take to be a change agent”. (We couldn’t believe how committed these guys were – talk about “flow moments”.) Putting their new skills into action, our lifters experienced rapid action prototyping and shared sense making as they probed and encouraged their fellow team members, drawing out meaning with plenty cheers and laughter!

They also reflected upon their experience at their blog and at their company website.

Doerte ‘Dotti’ Toellner is co-founder and managing director of Point-Blank International. In nearly two decades as a qualitative researcher, design thinker and change agent she has founded two companies and travelled the world on the behalf of ‘her’ brands. Catching sparks and crafting new ways of looking, thinking & doing keeps her inspired and passionate – in research, design, innovation & life in general. Make sure you set aside some time to chat with her about her hobby horses, such as 5 senses research, haptic think and the role of magic in the qualitative approach!

Cori Moore is stationed at Point-Blank’s idea workbench and communication hub, better known as Spark & Craft. A multitasking octopus, she devotes her time to running workshops, attending conferences and events, writing blogs & articles, tweeting, occasionally doodling and bringing new sparks of inspiration & people into the company. A cultural sponge, with a passion for trying new things, her bag of tricks incorporates her experience in the diverse fields of research, communication, event management & mixology – she can make a mean cocktail if you ask her nicely.