Create Your Own Story:
Our studio had the awesome opportunity to work with some local rockstars from Ames, IA. There were four different workshops going on: Drawing a City, Mental Mapping, Build Your Dream City, and Story Starters. In our group, we got the chance to listen to the students develop their stories based upon different prompts. The prompts were either fantastical like, “I was flying a kite when suddenly a gust of wind came and __________” or more structured ones like, “I was walking to ________ to get __________”.
The point of the prompts was to hear what creative ideas were floating around in these 6th-8th graders’ heads, and to channel their every day experiences to better understand how they are viewing the world. Honestly, their worlds are pretty extraordinary. Though sometimes filled with random explosions, our group also took their dogs to the park, made pigs fly, and solved world hunger with fish sticks. Though the logistics remain unclear for the execution of most of their ideas, the themes of exciting surprises, care for the world, and spontaneous combustion rang through.
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