A new pair of YouTube documentaries by David Gauntlett, a Professor at the University of Westminster and the author of Creative Explorations, provide a visual representation of his book's study: identity expressed with Lego pieces. From the site:
"How do you picture identity? What happens when you ask individuals to make visual representations of their own identities, influences, and relationships?"
"This leads to an innovative project in which Gauntlett asked people to build metaphorical models of their identities in Lego. This creative reflective method provides insights into how individuals present themselves, understand their own life story, and connect with the social world."
They gathered people from diverse backgrounds and familiarized them with Lego, metaphorical thinking and expressing their identities with metaphors. This is the focus in Part One: Methods. The first video also gives profiles on the study's participants and shows the free-play representative architecture they produced.
The second video looks at the book's findings: 11 conclusions on how people think about themselves, human complexity, time as an element of thought, among other observations.
"How do you picture identity? What happens when you ask individuals to make visual representations of their own identities, influences, and relationships?"
"This leads to an innovative project in which Gauntlett asked people to build metaphorical models of their identities in Lego. This creative reflective method provides insights into how individuals present themselves, understand their own life story, and connect with the social world."
They gathered people from diverse backgrounds and familiarized them with Lego, metaphorical thinking and expressing their identities with metaphors. This is the focus in Part One: Methods. The first video also gives profiles on the study's participants and shows the free-play representative architecture they produced.
The second video looks at the book's findings: 11 conclusions on how people think about themselves, human complexity, time as an element of thought, among other observations.
Gauntlett says also that metaphorical identity models can be created with anything that lets you be expressive.
If you want to play the home version but don't have the blocks, the Lego sim on the official site will get you going.
Anyone who metaphors their life in Lego (or with a Photoshop collage, mini-comic, in crayon, etc) is welcome to post it to comments. It would be interesting to see what people end up learning about them-selves.
Metaphorical-thinking information or guides would also be much appreciated in the comments section.
Anyone who metaphors their life in Lego (or with a Photoshop collage, mini-comic, in crayon, etc) is welcome to post it to comments. It would be interesting to see what people end up learning about them-selves.
Metaphorical-thinking information or guides would also be much appreciated in the comments section.
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