Workshops in Worldbuilding - Galemo Montessori School Klosterneuburg

(Yogi)

Marcus and Yogi designed and facilitated two workshops for high-school kids on how humans get to know their world. These workshops took place at Galemo Montessori School in Klosterneuburg, near Vienna.

The basic idea of our workshops is to ask the participating students to build a world around a small personal item that they bring to the course.

The resulting small portable world are used as the basis for a discussion about what is and what is not under our own control in our lives. As a second part of the workshop, we bring our individual world together with those that others around us have created.

In the end, we learn how we build our own world as we go through our lives, and how those worlds do (or do not) connect with other living beings around us.

These workshops are the beginning of a practice-oriented methodology for teaching high-schoolers the difference between the ways in which living and non-living beings get to know the world and each other.