In the ultimate meta event, this workshop will lead participants through The Workshop Game, a messy, hilarious, and hands-on game (which was created by Ladan Cockshut earlier this year) geared at encouraging conversation and reflection on the rewards, opportunities, and pitfalls that artists and craftspeople often encounter when they try to deliver a creative workshop to an often excited, typically earnest, and sometimes hapless public. We’ll first play the game in small teams and then the workshop leaders will lead the group through a discussion about the challenges and opportunities they face when running and attending workshops. If you like Play-Doh and have ever thought you might like to deliver a workshop some day, you won’t want to miss this! There’s even a prize for the winning team!

The goal of the workshop is to allow participants to discuss, share and reflect on the nature of workshop delivery in a fun and engaging environment. It is also to demonstrate the workshop leaders’ own approach to workshop delivery through bespoke play-based methods (a specific research interest of Ladan’s).

This workshop is aimed at any conference goer who is interested in delivering their own workshops, wants to learn tips about how to improve on their existing workshops, or is interested in how play-based methods can be used to improve learning among adults.

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Facilitated by:

- Ladan Cockshut, Research Associate, Durham University

- Alistair Brown, Research Associate, Durham University

- Rebecca Appleby, Administrator for Advanced Research Computing, Durham University

Alistair and Ladan are PDRAs and Rebecca is Administrator for Advanced Research Computing. All three are working on the Creative Fuse North East project and are based at Durham University. As part of their research into the CDIT sector in the NE, they have been working closely with the creative, digital and cultural sector by delivering a series of action workshops geared at supporting artists or small creative businesses across the region, including workshops on digital development, creativity, and arts and crafts workshop design and delivery.