Miro Board
A link to the workshop Miro Board
Workshop Plan
In this workshop the participants will be asked to reflect on which spaces restrict or elevate voice and what elements, methods, or tactics are used to make these spaces. They will be challenged to turn to archives and question how this space handles voice and what it could learn from other spaces. It is a workshop where no idea is a bad idea, and thinking outside of the box is a must.
All of the activities will be using a miro board to capture what is being said and explored.
Intro (2 mins)
I will very briefly introduce myself, my project and what we are going to do in the workshop.
Activity One: What is an archive? (10 mins)
Aim: To break down the symbols and language of the archive
Task: The participants will be deconstruct the archive through the five senses. What doing they see, smell, hear, feel, and taste when they are in an archive or think of when they hear the word ‘archive’?
Activity Two: The Scale of Voice (10 mins)
Aim: To map different spaces on a scale of suppressing the voice to elevating the voice and identifying where people feel they are most listened to
Task: The participants will be asked to think of the spaces where they feel their voice heard and where they feel their voice is suppressed. Hopefully, spaces from museums to dinner tables to secondary school classrooms to Twitter will be mapped along a scale, which in the end will show us where people feel most comfortable to speak.
Activity Three: What are these spaces? (10 mins)
Aim: To break down the symbols and language of the spaces where the participants feel their voice is most elevated
Task: Just like the first task the participants will deconstruct the space where they feel the most listened to through the five senses. What doing they see, smell, hear, feel, and taste when they are in these spaces? Depending on the number of people participating each space can be tackled consecutively if there are not many participants or in break out rooms where each rooms breaks down a different space.
Activity Four: What now archive? (15 mins)
Aim: To generate ideas and concepts that could transform the archive into a space more like those where people feel heard
Task: The participants will be invited to compare and contrast the experiences of archives and the spaces dissected in the previous activity, and use this as inspiration to create concepts and ideas that could make archives into a more voice friendly space.
Final thoughts (What ever time is left)
At this point people can ask questions, add any additional thoughts and ideas to the miro board, and generally reflect on the workshop as a whole.