urban games to make a living

How to Make a LivingWe’ve travelled from community centres to skyscraper boardrooms to local festivals across the continent to uncover how young people are coping with the crisis in creative ways – from a Romanian rickshaw driver turned MBA student to a British dustbin man turned serial entrepreneur, via aLithuanian market trader turned model.

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Exhibition

Pocket Guide

Documentary & Report

Make your Future

Description of the Method We have created four scenarios which you can see above based on the stories people

across the local groups have shared with us about they making a living. We now want the opportunity for people to be able to create their own scenario on how

they want to make a living in 2020

60 minutes Two people Link to examples of method

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Making Sense of Europe

What if you could discover different cultures and cities through feeling them, seeing them, hearing them and even touching them?

We’ve created mini games where you can do just that! Participants can play these mini-games individually or together.


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Organiser Pens & Paper

Make your City

Using a mixture of materials from crayons, chalk, paint, magazine photos, card, clay and any other materials you can find in public spaces, design or make stuff in response to: Tell a day in the life of your day Create a campaign to get people to come to your city Create a new service to help people find work

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Crayons, chalk, paint, magazine photos, card and clay

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Feel the City

Blindfold the participants. Ask them to stick out their hand and spray some water on it with a water pistol. Let them guess which city feels like that…It’s rainy London! Other examples: a piece of cheese or tulip (Amsterdam), raw spaghetti (Bologna), a Spanish fan (Barcelona).


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Hear the City

Blindfold the participants. Let them hear a sound and let them guess which city the sound comes from. Examples: flamenco music (Barcelona), sound of the tube (London), milk frothing (cappuccino; Bologna), wooden shoes/’klompen’ (Amsterdam).


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Taste the City

Blindfold the participants. Ask them to put something in their mouth and let them guess which city they taste. Examples: cheese or beer (Amsterdam), spaghetti (Bologna), sangria (Barcelona), scone (London).


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Smell the City

Blindfold the participants. Ask them to smell on something and let them guess which city the smell. Examples: pizza/pasta/espresso/etc (Bologna), beer/cheese/tulip (Amsterdam), tea (London), sangria (Barcelona).


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See the City

Let them see an object, place or person (pictures) and let them guess which city they see. Examples: Royal guards in London, Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Two towers in Bologna.


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Read the City

Compose a sentence about making a living by taking pictures of graffiti etc. Example: Revolutionary party student office doing nothing for a better education is good for my brain!


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Pic your Story

Use Lego or Playmobil figures and short text captions; create a story starting with a sentence provided by the festival organisers. Example: Nicky is unemployed, she starts the day preparing for an interview as a dancer. What does she do during the day to make a living?


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Map your City

Get a map of the neighbourhood, imagine you’re one of the imaginary characters and you have to try and make a living throughout an imaginary day:

Find food to eat. Find a place to stay. Find something to use your skills. Find someone to collaborate with.


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Travel to another City

Select a picture provided on the festival Flickr site on a landmark from another city.Take a picture of a landmark in your city and add it to the picture from the other city so it looks like your city’s landmark is in the other city. Example: London bus stop in Cluj museum square


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Flickr Photos Camera

Trading Europe

Every participant gets an item which he or she has to trade three times at least for some other item that will connect to the theme (like: what is Europe for them or something that symbolizes a different city, how they see transnationality) and hand it in at a certain spot, where a collage of all items will be build. A story teller will make a story out of it (the story of Europe or something; publish on the website).


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Item to trade Paper

Tshirt Manifestos

Every participant gets a t-shirt (with EA logo), which they can personalize with paint on: “I wish we could…” followed by what they’d like to Citizens Pact to propose Add Citizens Pact proposal (i.e. basic income) “makes me feel so” “How might we” followed by what issue they think Europe should tackle


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T Shirt Paint

Scavenger Hunt

City Scavengers is an interactive game that introduces the participants to some of the social problems of our city related to ethnic tension and immigration by challenging them to discover key places related to these problems. Carry out a treasure hunt around the city and the participants have to find some points in Sofia. The clues to the places are coded in short poems written by young Bulgarian poets specifically for the games and places.


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Poets Points

urban games to make a living

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