Author: Gaia
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Makeright Design Academy
For more information about the Makeright Academy and to access all the resources for your own practice, please visit http://makeright.org Teaching Materials for prison staff and design team Intro for Prison Staff Intro for Design Team Teaching Materials MAKERIGHT TEAM During my volunteering experience at HMP Thameside, London, I was privileged enough to collaborate with…
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Inmates Videos II
The experience of being part and making Makeright brought something different to everybody.These are the testimonies of learners Jim and James, about that process and how it changed our lives or perspectives. All the videos are credited to Stretch Charity. Jim James
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Volunteers Videos I
The experience of being part and making Makeright brought something different to everybody.These are the testimonies of Lara, Rachita and Raoni, about that process and how it changed our lives or perspectives. All the videos are credited to Stretch Charity. Lara Rachita Raoni
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Inmates Videos I
The experience of being part and making Makeright brought something different to everybody.These are the testimonies of learners Sam and John, about that process and how it changed our lives or perspectives. All the videos are credited to Stretch Charity. Sam John
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Gratitude Exercises & Questions for the Future
I thank //name of the person//for //action person did//which made me see or realize //own behavior//and I started //active change applied from learning//. Reflective Journal – Entry #7 After yesterday evening talk with another Makeright volunteer Raoni, I tried to apply his “Thank You” + gratitude exercise to the work.Found myself much more deeply involved…
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Session: Folding Techniques
Reflective Journal – Entry #6 The prison management system had faults, and I was not registered to enter. Pras and Erika were away, had to sit in the visitor center one hour to understand what to do, to be allowed to move and go “doing my job”. At the beginning felt so angry (discomfort), then…
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Session: Paper Prototype
Reflective Journal – Entry #5 Wayne tells me it was not a good day; it was the kind of day that if he would have found a gun beside his bed, he would have shot himself. “But for what” he adds “so then I’m not allowed to go nowhere, cannot rise, cannot fall, they call it…
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Session: Card Games & Prototyping
Reflective Journal – Entry #4 Good day. Session 1: Card Game.We played a card game to help the learners coming up with ideas for bags with few elements given; the group I was in included Raoni (another volunteer) and 2 learners (Bradley and Malik).Malik created several variations and won because he had different elements to…
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Session: Personas
Reflective Journal – Entry #3 Morning lesson, 9 guys instead of 16. More manageable, even if we were less people (which might not be a good sign…). For some unknown reasons, I started to loosen up: was the only volunteer, got more responsibilities, happy to be there and sharing knowledge and insights. DISCOMFORT While working…
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Embracing Discomfort
Reflective Journal – Entry #2 Generally, a good day. DISCOMFORT Lorraine (Gamman, principal investigator and founder of Makeright) that mentions several times the crimes of the guys. Found it preaching. Today theory lesson from Adam (Thorpe, co-investigator and founder of Makeright) on design process was very long and very theoretical. I was bored as well…