This document provides descriptions of several interactive methods and games that can be used at local festivals to engage participants in discussions about making a living and European culture and cities. Some of the proposed activities include having participants play mini-games to experience different European cultures through their senses, create scenarios for how they could make a living, customize t-shirts with proposals for social issues they think Europe should address, and participate in a scavenger hunt around the city to discover places related to social problems.

2. How to Make a Living
We’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 a
Lithuanian market trader turned
model.
http://bit.ly/makingaliving

3. Exhibition

4. Pocket Guide

5. Documentary & Report

6. 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
Resources Needed

7. 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.
60 minutes Two people Link to examples of method
Resources Needed
 Organiser
 Pens & Paper

8. 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
30 minutes Two people See http://bit.ly/13NtnE0
Resources Needed
 Crayons, chalk, paint,
magazine photos, card
and clay

9. 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).
10 minutes Two people Link to examples of method
Resources Needed
 Organiser
 Pens & Paper

10. 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).
10 minutes Two people Link to examples of method
Resources Needed
 Organiser
 Pens & Paper

11. 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).
10 minutes Two people Link to examples of method
Resources Needed
 Organiser
 Pens & Paper

12. 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).
10 minutes Two people Link to examples of method
Resources Needed
 Organiser
 Pens & Paper

13. 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.
10 minutes Two people Link to examples of method
Resources Needed
 Organiser
 Pens & Paper

14. 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!
10 minutes Two people Link to examples of method
Resources Needed
 Organiser
 Pens & Paper

15. 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?
10 minutes Two people Link to examples of method
Resources Needed
 Organiser
 Pens & Paper

16. 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.
30 minutes Two people Link to examples of method
Resources Needed
 Organiser
 Pens & Paper

17. 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
30 minutes Two people Link to examples of method
Resources Needed
 Flickr
 Photos
 Camera

18. 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).
30 minutes Two people Link to examples of method
Resources Needed
 Item to trade
 Paper

19. 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
30 minutes Two people Link to examples of method
Resources Needed
 T Shirt
 Paint

20. 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.
30 minutes Two people Link to examples of method
Resources Needed
 Poets
 Points