Collage Activities

Taking baby steps in creating a formula for a balanced collective, the team has decided to require each member to bring cutouts and/or art materials to the meeting. In the earlier minutes of the meeting, we took the opportunity to adapt a system that most members are aware of which is the division of roles that most business models applies to its employees, just to see how far that system works.

For the activity, we took turns in throwing our cutouts to one specific area of the room to create a collage and took the challenge to transfer it to a cardboard. The output being or seeming like a mess, some members took the initiative to take pictures, applied techniques into pasting the collage properly, and some took steps back relying on what the other members do best. Because of the way that "roles" mediates the capacity of each member's attitude and productivity, for this activity we proved it was unnecessary.

In a more elementary sense, this activity was basically a trust exercise with a hint of each member's way of studying behavior within the team and apart from the team, without compromising the productivity rate of the group. Given that all members coming from an array of backgrounds has their own set of preference, the practice to silence the ego can be conquered if the objective was to work as one.

This meeting was crucial for 2 things which help develop the team's process to work as one: 1. To gain insights as to how the team can be effective (as a whole) rooting from each member's perspective 2. To observe the productivity rate of the team

22 August 2014

For this activity, the team decided to do a mural on the walls of Concrete Jungle (a paved empty lot that functions as a skate park) located along Marcos Highway, Cainta, Rizal.

The team was required to come up with a work that could be wheat pasted anywhere in the park. Compared to the first activity the movement of all the members for this project yielded another form considering the output was directed to a larger surface and the presence of the public upon execution.

This was a complete leap to the contrast as to how the team executed its first activity. On this project, we only put all our concentration to the work and left room for analysis to the public as to gauge, how far into the context of the work we are trying to mold and organize as a collective taking note of the effort, and resources we have.

The key-objectives of this activity:

1. Organization a. Schedule b. Resources

2. Adaptation to a larger scale of surface

3. Presentation of the practice to a specific crowd