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Give people a platform to share their story Get under the skin of the people and places we visit Discover what’s unique about what people are creating Focus on what we can learn from people and what we can share Connect people with stories from other communities we visit OUR PRINCIPLES

Caravan Methods Guide

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Give people a platform to share their story

Get under the skin of the people and places we visit

Discover what’s unique about what people are creating

Focus on what we can learn from people and what we can share

Connect people with stories from other communities we visit

OUR PRINCIPLES

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BriefingWhat do we have planned today?

How are we feeling?

What do we want to achieve?

What do we do if things don’t go to plan?

How will we support each other?

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Debriefing What did we have planned today?

What did we achieve?

What went well? What didn’t go so well?

How are we feeling?

What do we want to improve?

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CARAVAN CUPCAKESSelect a cake with no words on it

Write on it what issue you feel passionately about

Choose a cake with an issue you don’t care so much about

What are you waiting for? Eat it!

Write down how that cake makes you feel?

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HIDDEN FORTUNESPut your hands in the box

We’ve hidden stuff from the places we’ve visited

Try and guess what you’re touching

If you get it right, you can take it home!

Now it’s your turn to put something in

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Message in a bottle

Think about what you’d like to share with the next community we meet

Write them a message

Add your email if you want them to contact you

We’ll give them your message

Imagine they read the message and get in touch with you!

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Around the World in 80

Observe the world around you as if you had never seen it before

Put onto paper the first thing that comes into your head

Don’t be afraid to come up with unusual ideas

Combine and remix existing ideas to create new ones

Create your solution in ways that make people curious about it

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making a livingSelect a character that you identify with

What do you identify with in this scenario?

What challenges does this person have?

What opportunities does this person face?

What advice would you give this person?

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Select a character that you identify with

Imagine they were in…2025

Describe how they would spend a day trying to make a living

Describe how they would act, react, feel, think & interact

We will share your imaginary character with people we meet

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF…

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THE WORLD AROUND US

Describe what impact you want to have on your friends & family

Describe what impact you want to have on your community

Describe what impact you want to have on the world

Look at what other people have written

Draw a line to connect your impact to someone else’s

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Select one of the sunglasses you’d like to repurpose

Stick different materials onto the sunglasses

Try them on!

Refine the sunglasses until you can see the world differently

Describe what you see differently and how that makes you feel

DISCOVER THE UNSEEN

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Imagine we created a poem written by everyone we meet?

Have a look at the poem we’ve started

Continue the poem by writing two lines (even better if they rhyme!)

You can scribble it down however it comes to you

The next people we meet will write their contribution!

ONCE UPON A TIME…

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PASSPORT TO your future

Passports have got information about us like our age, place of birth and expiry date

Imagine you could add information on your passport that really defines who you are

Use the materials to create your own passport adding what you’d like to do in the future

You can take it home and look back at it to see if you’ve achieved your dreams!

Or you can leave it with us and we’ll exhibit it so people can be inspired by your dreams

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What’s your currency?

Currencies were invented to represent the exchange of value and trust

They haven’t always been used as coins or notes, grains were originally used

Nowadays, currency can be found in all kinds of forms – physical and virtual

Think about what value you’d like to exchange and how you’d represent that

Use the different materials to create your new currency