Posted on 1 August 2014
The two workshops were designed as practical experiments in interactive creativity; the first, "What a LARP," was a live action role-play developed and facilitated by members of the York University Science Fiction and Fantasy Society, based upon a zombie apocalypse scenario and played out with year five pupils of Clifton Green Primary School. The second workshop, "The Great Experiment," was a classroom-based workshop exploring collaborative constrained story making, in which year five pupils at Hob Moor Primary School progressed from lab rats to graduate story scientists.
Both were extremely lively events, which elicited the enthusiastic engagement of the kids as well as some thoughtful responses in the debriefing discussion afterwards. The full reports on both events can be found here: Narrative Creativity Workshops.