Lego serious play

Plato says ‘You can learn more about a person in an hour of play than you can in a life time of conversation’ and Lego serious play was used as a talking tool to get everyone interacting and thinking that the Lego was not just a piece of plastic but could be a metaphorical resemblance of a person or how there personality could be. We started off by gathering on the sofas in the Automatic were we were given a plastic elephant toy and was told that the elephant was a metaphor of the personality of a new teacher that will be having us next week. The elephant was passed around the room and a series of answers were given to do with the personality of the teacher. Answers such as a very bold person, very helpful, likes to engage and interact with people and is a good listener. The first model was to build a tower, the only rules being it had to be on a green base and have a figure on the top. This was my first model that I built, and as you can tell most if it is very symmetrical. This could identify what my personality is like or what am like as a person. Also the model I built isn’t so high off the ground this is because I like to be stable in what I do and in anything practical I am involved in. In some cases I felt slightly uncomfortable talking about the building because I felt like I was giving to much information away about myself especially when we were told to build the second tower which had to consist of adapting to the tower to reflect on what you bring to the team.

Comparing to the other model I added

many more Lego blocks and a net. This resembles that I like to have a back up plan to any of my ideas if they fail on me or I don’t think that they are good enough. I would bring stableness and creativity to the team as I like to think of myself as creative, mainly through production or drawing my ideas.

The third model was a core element of a successful team. Once all the models were finished we then used a technique called landscaping to place the elements of the team in proximity of each other in order to understand the group’s concept of essential teamwork components.

Finally are team gathered all the Lego buildings and place them a pens width away from each other to show which was the most important and strongest part to the cycle of teamwork. Once we had are own models in the right place we realised that there were a few parts  missing to complete the cycle, so we made models to fill in what we needed in order for it to work. The one model we had to remake was the communication between students. We decided to place small character models in a line

and link them up from there heads using rope. This suggests that we all should work together and every idea should count in making the final product. Starting from the right all of the small models cluttered together resemble the ideas. A majority of us made these as are first models so it shows that were creative in what we think. Moving further into the middle the tall black model was the key that holds it all together a bit like the brain of it all and the connection between everyone in the group. This helps everything move a long smoothly. Further down into the left corner was the outcomes and the production and editing side to teamwork. This method  helped show are creative side to one another and it was brilliant to see how Lego can help with story telling and how its used to not only say what you mean but build what you think about. I would defiantly use Lego to create ideas to help with explaining what I mean and how I will go about making my ideas in future presentations.