LEGO Café: Let’s Build a Learning Community

Ennis, Laura; Yorkstone, Steve

Abstract

Trying something new can be scary. Often it helps to float ideas with friendly colleagues before taking the leap and branching out. We created our monthly LEGO Café as a space where academic and professional staff could come together to experiment with how to incorporate playfulness into their work. So far we have used LEGO to explore how we; welcome new students, engage with physical spaces, use emotions during play, and use different approaches to teaching and research.

Come to our talk to hear about why we created an informal learning community of practice centred on the use of toys and games (especially LEGO) in higher education. Are you brave enough?

Key literature
Blair, S. & Rillo, M. (2016). Serious work: How to facilitate meetings & workshops using the Lego Serious Play method. London: Promeet.

Citation

Ennis, L., & Yorkstone, S. (2019, June). LEGO Café: Let’s Build a Learning Community. Presented at Learning and Teaching Conference, Edinburgh

• Presentation Conference Type: Other
• Conference Name: Learning and Teaching Conference
• Conference Location: Edinburgh
• Start Date: Jun 20, 2019
• End Date: Jun 20, 2019
• Deposit Date: Nov 6, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 8, 2019
• Keywords: LEGO, playful facilitation, learning communities
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2293802
• Publisher URL: https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/teachingfellows/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/2019/06/PLAYFUL_LEARNING02_LAURA-ENNIS.pdf