Ed Chester

[Ed Chester]

If it’s so short, even exploration kit isn’t needed for a round of Explain This, provided you can make a set of identical kits with a good mix of 6-8 parts each. If you don’t have those ready to go or are short of time to prepare them, then go with WEK.

[Ed Chester]

Yannick – if this is a multicultural group from “around the world” that don’t already know each other, then I wouldn’t consider using LSP in such a short time as 30 minutes. I believe it will be inevitably shallow, and potentially embarrassing, and undermine the value of the great work you could do if you were given adequate time.
However, if you have a group that has met and worked together before but never met LSP, then you can do something quite surprising in a short time which opens up questions about other ways they can use alternative communication and decision processes.
For short time, with small group, _if_ they have met each other OR there are not concerns about culture, language, spoken communication, then would use the ‘Explain This’ exercise but in an intense way: limited time, multiple “laps”, and on the final lap – also limited words to share the story: i.e. cut to the shortest, most accurate meaning they can without losing content.
In short – beware of doing things that undermine or undervalue you yourself, or LSP as a suite of methods.
Good luck!

[Ed Chester]

Hi Joel – 10698 is a great starting point. There’s nothing ‘crucial’ at the start that would get in the way. I’d suggest you need a few wheels (and I seem to remember this has some), and some larger plates (bigger than 8×8). I think there are 12×4 and 8×6 in this box. I’d consider getting a few (1 per person) identical larger plates directly from the pick-a-brick service.

You don’t need many bricks per person, but diversity of bricks is important. The window exploration bags are great but if you don’t imagine ever needing so many they are an outlay. Could you share a box of exploration bags with someone?

You will accumulate a box of ‘enough’ mixed up parts to support a group workshop pretty quickly, and can improve the mix as you go do more workshops. The only other thing I’d say is to try to avoid bringing in parts from ‘designed kits’ which tend to have smaller and more specialised parts. In LSP – nobody ever wants a 1×1 plate. Nobody wants tiles, tiny transulent parts, axle pins, or funky curved wheel arches. Don’t add anything in that slows people down due to fiddliness :) Good luck, and don’t worry too much about the parts: asking the right questions is the bigger deal.

[Ed Chester]

fully agree. the idea of make a physical metaphor is the easy part. everyone i’ve worked with has been fully on board with putting abstract concepts onto bricks after about 45mins, 3/4 of the way through the standard skills building. if you don’t do the skills building, you can’t expect the method to work.

[Ed Chester]

the single brick that i see most used that brings meaning without any other bricks is the transparent blue duplo 2×4 brick. i don’t know why you wouldn’t want that piece. you know – the one that says: trust, ice, transparency, fear, lightness, cold, hope, openness, regulation, clarity, imagination, far future — and so on ;)

[Ed Chester]

i’d like to be included in the slack team please! ed.chester@gmail.com
good idea…
ed

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