SWISP Lab x Science Gallery Bengaluru Carbon Mediators: Playing HAK.io ‘off beat’

Co-designed by Carbon Mediators X SWISP Lab.

Step 1 Assemble in a safe place such as a park, playground or creative community space.

Discussion: What is carbon? 

Think-Pair-Square: 5-7 minutes or activity of the day (TBD)

Also known as: turn and talk, Think-Pair-Square. Think-Pair-Share involves people thinking independently about a prompt or problem, pairing up and discussing their ideas with a friend or peer, and then sharing their combined knowledge with the group. Go!

Now for the HAK.io inspection  – What’s in the ‘off beat’ HAK.io? 

‘off beat’ HAK.io includes:

Let’s get started: Find your zine in the kit and fold it, cut and make your personal zine. 

Okay let’s get drawing: Design your Carbon Zine front page based on what you know about carbon from your think-pair-share discussion.  Keep that collaborative discussion alive while while making. 

Keep your zine card close you will need to work on your zine throughout this workshop.

Step 2: The Recce

What does recce mean? It’s a verb. If you recce an area, you visit that place in order to become familiar with it. People usually recce an area when they are going to return at a later time to do something there. [British, old-fashioned]

Let’s go for a walk around the space or place and find your carbons: collect carbon or observe carbon.

Walk and record a protocol in your zine on page 2. This protocol could be the one on the card, or you can develop your own as we discover carbon. 

What did you find on your carbon walk? On page 3 of your zine document the carbons you have found.  

Time to story Carbon.

What hundred words come to mind in your carbon discovery?

Open up your zines use the larger format paper to ideate your 100 words.

Your story constraints and openings: 
1. After playing with a hundred words develop a 100 word story about carbon. 
2. you must have a character. This could be carbon, carbon’s friends, nemesis, Elder of descendent. 
3. your 100 can be a monologue dialogue. 

Step 3. Back to base

Create your puppet – rummage through the kit.

• Write the script: what does your puppet have to say in 100 words?

Step 4. Take the stage

Show and tell: Performing the puppetry

• Who is the audience: Are there any Elders on site to come and watch the story telling in the space you are? if yes, invite an elder to come and be the audience. Ask questions in formal casual freeform conversation, encourage reflective storytelling or folktales as oral history.

Step 5. Marination

Reflecting in carbon ideas: Back to your Carbon zine for a quick reflexive ‘100’. What comes to mind when we think back on what saw and think and carbon? 

Think-Pair-Square: 5-7 minutes or activity of the day (TBD)

Also known as: turn and talk, Think-Pair-Square. Think-Pair-Share involves people thinking independently about a prompt or problem, pairing up and discussing their ideas with a friend or peer, and then sharing their combined knowledge with the group. Go!

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