Methods we're using on our Transeuropa Caravans. See http://citizenspact.eu

1. 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

2. Briefing
What 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?

3. 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?

4. CARAVAN CUPCAKES
Select 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?

5. HIDDEN FORTUNES
Put 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

6. 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!

7. 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

8. making a living
Select 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?

9. 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…

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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…

13. 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

14. 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