This week as part of my MA Applied Drama at Goldsmiths College we looked at creative ways to plan or evaluate a project. It basically involved listing the main stages involved in the project from the initial idea, the theme, terminology, recruitment, people involved etc through to the evaluation and legacy of the project. In the first model we wrote out the stages of the project on big peices of paper and then were invited to transform it into a model or sulpture, decorating it and raising some bits up. We then analysed what we observed together. It was a very affective way of talking about and reflecting on the project creatively and in an indirect non confrontational way as all eyes were on the model and any comments were filtered through it. We also used this technique to plan a project. We split up into smaller groups to do this and once we had built our model other groups came
and had a look giving their observations of what they saw. It was a very revealing exercise and incredible how much we were able to observe from each other projects through just looking at the model. It was also a great way to get excited about the project at it's birth as we scuttled around trying to find materials. Having just finished a big CMS project ourselves Free For All and as we think about a possible new project for 2009 this could prove a useful tool. To see the models we made check out my flickr pics
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