Games and Learning Tools
A game to train your eye and improve your skills on visual language
My Photography Toolbox is a reference deck of cards for those who work with images, photography and visual design. Each card plays with a visual concept like Composition, Fundamentals, Principles or even Attitudes and is complemented by an example card.
A visual challenge in the shape of a quartet game
One of the 21st century skills on literacy directs to the mediated surrounding. Practicing to understand how images are made, what they mean, or how they create emotions and generate impact is crucial. My Photography Game helps to unravel the visual elements in photographs, paintings and illustrations
A party game about storytelling in films, and red herrings
You are a collective of frustrated writers that has been commissioned for a genuine genre film. As competition arises between your fellow scribblers about who should lead, you decide to have a pitching tournament to choose who will be the author of this film. Get the most votes and the maximum points to come out first!
Workshops
These experiential courses and workshops are set up acknowledging that change (and learning) manifest through our brains as well as through our bodies.
Courses for Teachers and Educators
What we do, and how we do it needs to be shared, understood, pedagogically defined and mobilized through our practice. This is the base of our self-actualization workshops.
- Embodied exercises to dismantle the central position of the “institutional teacher”.
- Study case scenarios to dissect critical repetitive situations.
- The application of memetics to assess complex behavior.
- Methods to engage students to critique, make suggestions, take part of the process.
- Tools for building up caring attitudes, and sense of community.
- Play as learning activator.
“courses in understanding the structures of visual communication”
Visual Literacy and Visual Cultures
Understanding how images are loaded with meaning. Acquiring a practice of interpretation by experimenting with the principles of visual language, and a critical eye to confront the overload of visual propaganda.
- Individual and team based experiments combining visual rules.
- Image analysis, connoted meaning and context.
- Exercises that offer active forms of lifelong self-learning, stimulate experimentation and creativity while enabling critical thinking.
Creative Processes
Understanding the different phases in creative work. Working in trans-disciplinary collaboration.
“enhancing awareness of – and confidence in – individual creative processes"
- Research and design by doing.
- Activities combining informal research tools and experimentation.
- Individual and team based experiments with different materials.
- Study cases of different practices.
- Tools for allowing play, imagination, possibility, collaborative renewal, and engaged ethics.
“realising safe spaces and the richness of diversity”
Diversity and Inclusion
Acknowledging non dominant references as a powerful source of interaction, and the terminology on inclusion and exclusion.
- Creating a safe space.
- Making together to find out the dynamics in a group.
- Study cases as situated examples of the power of diversity.
- Embodied activities to feel myself and the other for changing group dynamics.
- Tools for allowing play, imagination, possibility, collaborative renewal, and engaged ethics.