BUILDING FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY - Kennedy Bibliothek

What "becomes immediately revealing in this game is that the more
uses there are in the first column, Inventory of Spaces, the more
the other two columns will reveal how these uses overlap with one
another and are candidates for systematic and careful co-ordination.
Time for the game: 45 minutes to 1 hour.
GAME 2. Basic Activities
Players are now divided into groups of 8 or 10, around a table.
Each player has a game board (see illustration). Players are
asked to apply the words from Column 2, How the Space is Used, to
the appropriate space on their game board. For example: "reading"
may go into Skill Development; "writing", may go into both Self-
Expression and Skill Development; "sitting" may go into Self-Place
(physical identity with where one is) and also into Colloquia
(meeting people, formal and informal occasions); etc. This game
demonstrates that simple spaces and simple activities can be rich
with meanings and options: and it helps to condition players, many
of whom may come from specialized or brueaucratized backgrounds, to
think more freely and creatively in the games which follow.
Time for the game: 20 minutes,
GAME 3. Basic Human Relationships
This game is the first of a series which explores how a user relates
to his activity in the contexts of time, space, or, as in this game,
basic human relationships. The same words and phrases (reading,
writing, sitting, etc.) as those used in Game 2.are used again, only
this time they are spelled out twice, in capital letters and in lower
case letters. The same groups of players are asked to place the
words according to first and second importance.
GAME 4. Time
Time for the game: -J--an-hour.
The players are now asked to form eight equal groups, one for each
of the categories of basic human relationships in Game 3. Each
group then deals in Game 4 only with the activities which in Game 3
were identified by all the players (all 60-100) in its particular
category (viz. the group "many to object" deal with everything in
that category, and so on). Each group responds to the gaming sheet
by writing in the activity in the Activity column and drawing a
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