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Longform improv as a collaboration tool

looking beyond the “make-em-up jokes”

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Make things.

designers

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Make things up.

improvisors

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“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”

Plato

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Accept gifts.

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photo by Howard Dickens

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Support your collaborators.

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photo by Kevin McShane

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Find the game.

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photo by Jan Tik

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Explore the suggestion.

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• What is it?

• How would you talk to a person like it?

• What kind of myth or superhero would it be?

• How would that superhero talk to everyone else?

Invoke.

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photo by Jacque Arend

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Be emotionally affected.

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photo by Kevin McShane

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Do it because you love it.

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photo by Phoenix Improv Festival

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• http://improv.ninamiller.us

• http://www.thetorchtheatre.com

• http://design.asu.edu

• http://wiki.improvresourcecenter.com/

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“This journey is not about you. It’s about everyone around you.”

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