The second session invites participants as a collective, can create a Citizen Creative Walk programme, by reading of the following recipe :
- Determine a topic to tackle
- Make inquiries about this topic , find documentation, first for yourself (animators), and build a content you will be able to share (outside, during a CCWalk)
- Have a target group and an audience. In general, a CCWalk is addressed to 10 to 15 people. Choose the audience you want to reach : children, teenagers, from schools, young adults, or a mixture of people. Sometimes, it would require getting in touch with a specific structure (organization or institution). It may need communication (social media or website), to address a wider audience.
- Determine a parcours (attention to the timing ; balance between walk and talks). Try it BEFORE the D-Day : mark the breakpoints. The way determines partly the activities : if the road is narrow, make a single or pair activity there.
- Put a big focus on the evolution / unfolding
1. Group bounding ;
Before having collective reflections, it is important that people feel comfortable and free to express themselves in the group ; the first activities are about raising a group cohesion, that can go through non-verbal exercises or movement – it also makes sense with the method itself being about movement of walk. People must meet each other, preferably by pairs or by group of three, and by the end of this first part, everyone has to have met every other participant.
Use the space as well as any other variation, such as the size of group.
2. Build a reflection.
Two techniques: from documentation, with data or science as a base, or by creation, finding ideas and solutions in a collective collaborative way. The very best is to mix the two techniques together.
3. Vary spaces, sounds – moments of exchange, moments of silence, musical moments.
Try to find a good balance between physical and intellectual activities. Keep in mind this is a walk and people are going through a specific landscape, and build moments when there is an attention paid to this very surroundings. It is a piece of an ecological mindset, and it can bring a creative moment, where people are looking on their own and frame a detail they would notice and take a picture from it.
4. Collective feedback
Bonus : It is in the spirit of the CCWalk to be active as much as possible. It means it is welcomed to have more than one maker and animator – rather three, even four.
The participants should be asked to move and speak as much as possible. They can be asked to animate as well – for example, if there is a text to read aloud.
Animators will have a printed document allowing them to follow the activities planned