How to cope with trying to make a living

Saturday

Objective Output

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Activity Time

Understand the different types of work situation

Description of different types of Personas of young people trying to make a living

Introduce purpose & method of Personas

Introduce visual content & research for each of the four personas as well as draft personas (Zombie Generation, Invisible Citizens, Life Hackers and Militant Optimists) and scenarios

Introduce four imaginary stories of each Persona

Get people into a group for each persona and ask them to select relevant visual content that best describes each persona and imagine how each persona will make a living in 2020 using Photos for Slogans and Cards, document

11.00-13.00

Lunch Buy sandwiches & snacks 13.00-14.00

Describe the journey they go through in coping with these situations through creating a Citizen Journey Map

Print Citizen Journey Maps templates for each of the Personas and get people into groups for each Persona to imagine a “week in the life” of trying to make a living in 2020

Use Citizen Journey Map presentation including Empathy Map, Wheel of Life & Life Timeline, as well as Week in Life template and Customer Journey Canvas. so that participants can learn how to develop personas

14.00-16.00

Exploration 16.00-17.30

Understanding of what we’ve achieved today

Discussion of the outcomes of the activities today and what we’d like to develop tomorrow

17.30-18.00

Free time 18.00-19.30

Dinner Find out how many want to come to restaurant and book restaurant

19.30-

Sunday 14 April

Objective Output

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Activity Time

Understand how people develop creative ways of making a living

Description of different types of creative ways to make a living through creating Method Cards

Brainstorm how we can use the content produced for this project to create a Festival Activity

Use the Make a Festival methodology with Festival Techniques from other cities as inspiration

10.00-12.00

Understand how the effects of different work situations affect young people’s attitudes on other issues

Description of different types of effects on people’s attitudes through the creating a System Map

Present summarised outputs from the survey on each of the sections (these are shown at http://www.slideshare.net/noelhatch/stimulants-workshop)

Get participants to add the types of support onto an A1 sheet of paper and identify connections between the different types of answers to create a System Map as you can see on the left

Encourage people to cluster the artefacts that have relationships with each other and draw lines or icons symbolising the contradictions or opposites. This helps people make sense of all the information and identify relationships between the research

12.00-13.00

Lunch 13.00-14.00

Understand the different types of support for young people in making a living

Description of different types of support through creating Support Cards and how the organisations providing the support interact through creating an Actors Map

Get participants to add the types of support onto an A1 sheet of paper and identify connections between the types of support to create an Actors Map as you can see on the left

14.00-15.00

Use examples of support to help people cope with making a living that have been provided in the interviews and Support section of the survey

Get people to create descriptions for each type of support and select a photo/visual for each support to create a Support Card

Create stick-on stencils of different types of European citizens or scenarios with link to the festival website

Understand how young people cope psychologically & practically with making a living

Description of different types of ways people cope through creating Emotion Cards & Action Cards

Use examples of how young people cope with making a living that have been provided in the interviews and Emotions & Actions sections of the survey

Get people to create descriptions for each type of coping psychologically & practically and select a photo/visual for each support to create Emotion & Action Cards

Using Stimulants presentation and +400 visuals have been produced showing people, places and practices

15.00-16.00

that represent the problems and opportunities of trying to make a living

Objective Output(CTRL + click on image to see example)

Activity Preparation (see above pages for details on these activities)

Develop scenario stories of different types of futures for young people

Stories describing four alternative scenarios of the future on how young people can make a living in 2020

Examples of Scenario Stories and Scenarios

Present purpose & method of developing scenarios

Introduce activity to produce visual content & ideas to inform the development of scenarios (see next page for detail)

Design a guide of methods on how to develop creative ways to make a living

A guide of methods where people can use the different “cards” developed in the activities below (emotion, action, support, methods) to encourage young people in precarious work situations to develop creative ways to make a living

Share guide with other cities so they can use the guide with local members to develop ideas on creative ways to make a living

Present purpose & method of developing method cards

Advise that the “cards” are based on the research outputs from the relevant activities which have “issue cards” as their outputs (see next

page for detail)