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Playshop `02 October 
Let's Playful in the Colorful Kingdom!
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October 19, 2002 (Sat) 13:00P.M.-16:00P.M.
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Nagayama Chi-kichi (Tama City, Tokyo)
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13 elementary school students in grades 1-3
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Colorful Kingdom attempted to stimulate the imaginations of the participating children on various levels. The children established a kingdom and made themselves its residents. Using colorful materials and decorative elements, they created their own clothes, hats, and masks for a visit to the King of the Colorful Kingdom.
This Playshop focused on stimulating children to act on their imagination. In particular, the program allowed time for them to explore and develop their creative desires by providing a wide range of colorful materials that were not confined to the usual paints and markers.
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After registering, the children were each assigned an "older brother" or "older sister" who interacted with them until the program began and who would also observe and survey the participants. At the beginning of the program, children were given white fabric and a mask and sketched imaginative designs for their costumes. They then moved to the workshop space where they made the costumes, decorating them with colorful materials placed in the center of the room. They entered the kingdom in their designed costumes, took photographs on the colorful stage, and played with their "older brothers" and "older sisters."
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Playshop `02 March
Chi-kichi Children Studio-Let's Make a Movie
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March 9, 2002 (Sat.) 11:00A.M.-4:00 P.M.
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Nagayama Chi-kichi (Tama City, Tokyo)
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13 elementary school students in grades 1-3
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Participants made an original movie by creating a character reflecting their dreams. Locations were the universe, wild forest and the ocean. Children created their own story by crafting characters and making an adventurous movie. They also experienced the fun of presenting their creations with media.
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After checking in, each facilitator paired with one participant. The pairs crafted the characters and developed the relationships. After extended discussions about participants' dreams that were reflected in the making of the characters, the participants formed three adventure groups around the themes "ocean" "forest" and "the universe." Members of the groups became acquainted with each other over lunch. After lunch, filming was the main activity. During this time, character relationships were fixed and the story constructed. At the end of the program, the participants and their parents enjoyed watching the movies.
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Playshop `01 December
Winter Story-Let's Make a Playful Story
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December 22, 2001 (Sat.) 11:00A.M-.4:00 P.M.
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Nagayama Chi-kichi (Tama City, Tokyo)
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8 elementary school students from grades 1-3 and their parents or guardians
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Main Theme: "Joy in Creation and Watching"
Participants created their own winter stories using photographs of daily life. They also experienced the enjoyment of presenting their creations using media. The story-making activity encouraged improvisation and creativity, and through this self-expression, focused on interactions with others and ensured that everyone (both children and adults) felt the playful spirit.
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Parents and children were separated from each other and all participants were divided into artificial families. In the morning, the photographs with attached words and meanings were combined and sentences were created out of the wordplay. During lunchtime, participants became more acquainted with their group members. In the afternoon, each group made an original story based on a photograph. Together, they constructed a story by taking photographs, writing scenarios and recording sound effects, after which they presented their stories. At last, they attached their memories of the day on the Christmas tree and were given gifts from Santa Claus.
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Playshop`01 August
Playful Magic 3-Cicada Adventure
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August 11, 2001 (Sat.) 11:00A.M.-4:00 P.M.
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Nagayama Chi-kichi (Tama City, Tokyo)
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11 elementary school students in grades 1-3
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"Attach, Connect"
Participants experienced relationships among living creatures or human beings by becoming a cicada and feeling its growth, and by using magnets to see how things attract and attach. Children communicated with others freely. As a result, the expressions of children and their relationships with others encouraged more creative activity among the participants.
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Parents and children were separated and led in different directions by magnet men in four colors. All participants were divided into artificial families. Then, in "cicada's growth", the participants felt the value of a cicada's life. In "cicada adventure," they did orienteering on the school grounds, and picked up materials to decorate their wings. After reflecting on the day on video, the participants wrote memories of the day on pieces of paper and attached them to the cicada's tree.
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Playshop `01 July
Playful Magic 2-Wishing on a Star
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July 7, 2001 (Sat.) 1:30 P.M.-4:30 P.M.
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Nagayama Chi-kichi (Tama City, Tokyo)
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10 elementary school students in grades 1-3 with their parents or guardians
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"Attach, Connect"
Children sensed the growth process of living things and relationships between human beings through activities that mimicked other living creatures and their evolution. They also experienced magnetic attraction and witnessed how complete opposites can relate to each other just as north and south poles attract.
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Parents and children were separated from each other, and all participants were divided into artificial families. In "Growth of Living Creatures", the participants played a game in which they mimicked the movements of a butterfly in the process of emerging from its cocoon after seeing a VCR of butterfly's life. Then, using craft materials they had collected as caterpillar and butterfly food, they created butterfly houses on the board. Participants created playful dance steps and presented the "bamboo rhythm." They attached themselves to one another in "Magnet Man." After the reflection session on video, they made wishes and put them on a bamboo tree in commemoration of the Tanabata Festival.
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Playshop `01 June
Playful Magic 1-Relations between Living Things
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June 2, 2001 (Sat.) 1:30 P.M.-4:30 P.M.
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Nagayama Chi-kichi (Tama City, Tokyo)
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10 elementary school students in grades 1-3 with their parents or guardians
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"Connection"
Children experienced relationships between living creatures and human beings through activities that mimicked some creature and evolution, and saw things attract with magnets. Children communicated with others by expressing themselves freely. As a result, the expressions of children and their relationships with others encouraged more creation among the participants.
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Parents and children were separated from each other, and all participants were divided into artificial families. In "evolution", the participants mimicked animals such as a worm or elephant, and looked for food. They used the food they had obtained (made with craft materials such as color paper and thread) to design meals and then expressed the process of digestion.
Then, participants experienced attachment to one another by using magnets in dancing. Participants reflected on the Playshop day by watching a video and attaching their memories to the playful tree.
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Playshop `01 Tokyo
Messages in the Snow
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March 29, 2001 (Thu.)
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The former Higashi-Nagayama Elementary School (Tama City, Tokyo)
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7 elementary school students in grades 1-3
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Participants experienced the wondrous feeling of stepping and playing in freshly fallen snow and the excitement of making footprints in the snow that disappear when it melts.
This workshop was based on the idea of recording fleeting memories of the snow. After the footprints were recorded, they were shown on the website to enable participants to communicate with each other. Please take a look and recall the feelings of your own childhood.
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Playshop `00 Nagoya
World Youth Meeting (WYM) First-day Program
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July 22, 2000 (Sun.)
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Nagoya International Center (Aichi Prefecture, Nagoya)
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70 high school students participating in the World Youth Meeting (from Korea, Germany, Taiwan, the United States, and Japan)
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Find the Me in Media
->Relax and Entangle
->Meet and Link
->Make it Round
->Twine and Play
->Video Reflection
This sequence of events was designed to encourage high school students from various cultures who participated in WYM to feel the playful spirit. This was intended to make activities on the second day and in their daily lives more creative through interactions with new friends, things and environments.
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Miyata Laboratory, Chukyo University |
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Playshop `00 Yoshino
Feel the Media
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July 2, 2000 (Sun.)
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Yoshino NEO MUSEUM (Yoshino County, Nara Prefecture)
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6 families with children ranging in age from kindergarten to high school and their parents or guardians
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Feel the Media
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Using the five sense, we tried to feel sensations that escape our notice in daily life: sounds we have not heard before, new shapes, colors, smells, tastes, and tactile qualities. The activities began with Wakeup Activity, followed by Let's Make Japanese Paper!, Let's Float Balloons!, Face Painting, Let's Search for Sounds, Pictures, and Words!, and Let's Make Media-poems!. We thought of many ideas for presentation and playing using advanced technology, added sound to our creations, and then presented them to the group. |
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Playshop 1999 PLAYFUL
Let's Experience the Playful Spirit!
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November 28, 1999 (Sun.)
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Benesse Corporation's Tokyo Headquarters, 13th floor Main Hall (Tama City, Tokyo)
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150 participants comprising elementary school children, their parents or guardians, and teachers
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Let's Experience the Playful Spirit!
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Find the Me in Media
-> ii-motion
-> Discover Your Selves
-> toyification of everyday objects
-> savory and mindful giving
-> hear my story
-> Emotional Opera
-> Reflection Party
-> "Playful Beginning"
In this sequence of events, adults and children participated in an activity consisting of "creating - talkin - reflecting," using five senses. They became very absorbed in the activity and joint experience.
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