Welcome to the Playful Activity Library! We invite you to explore this curated collection of active, playful activities designed for use in adult education settings. This library supports our playful learning community by showcasing inspiring practices, sparking new ideas, and encouraging collaborative connections. We welcome all forms of playful approaches—whether it’s a quick icebreaker, a creative classroom activity, or a fully developed board game. Whatever your contribution, we’d love for you to share it with the community!
Objective:
Learners in this game develop customer problem solving knowledge, they don’t receive it. They learn by doing, failing, and iterating. This failure drives them to ask questions and seek answers through active exploration, self-reflection, and interaction with ‘customers’.
It evidences the power of moving from and inward looking, problem solving heuristics in teams to an outward looking, communication-based approach to solving customer problems.
Overview:
The focus in this game is deep listening skills and development of empathy with the ‘other’ (the customer). It allows learner teams to compete and recognise how listening and communicating with stakeholders increases the prospect of a start-up idea. For example, while in this version, the ‘other’ is the customer, we could transfer the game into user experience and design contexts.
Facilitators can reconfigure the game so that the emphasis is on inter-team cooperation and collaboration rather than purely about customer centricity.
The game can also be flipped to focus on resource planning and negotiation in supplier-side contexts.
Ed Gonsalves
Cooplexity
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Large (30 – 500)
Pattern Recognition, Interaction, Physical Play
Collaborating, Connecting, Sharing, Reflecting
Copyrighted, Free to use and adapt, Available to license