Emanuele Rapisarda

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By Emanuele Rapisarda January 19, 2017 in Endor x lab

Steps to becoming Yous

We already told you about the birth of Yous (codename: Endor) Now, Yous is growing and it has just gone through the delicate phase of childhood. A phase in which the desire to discover, with a genuine sense of curiosity, is the standard. Just like children, we have faced the world without prejudices, ready to see, hear, feel, touch the reality of today. In fact, we went around Italy and Europe to ask to students, young professionals and experts in different fields what has characterized their growth as people and

By Emanuele Rapisarda May 24, 2016 in Rory's Story Cubes tool lab

The serious game “Rory’s Story Cubes®”: starting of a journey

Our first bump into Story Cubes® was one year ago when one of our Spanish colleagues made us as a gift: nine dice with no numbers but pictures on its six faces. Immediately we have been attracted by them and we fell in love with this simple but powerful tool. We started to play with them the day after but we soon discovered that it was possible to use them in so many different ways and in so different interesting areas, that we decided to create the Rory’s Story Cubes®

LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® is a method that enables constructive reflection and dialogue processes. During a structured process, participants use LEGO bricks to create models that express their thoughts, reflections and ideas.

The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodology offers a sophisticated means for a group to share ideas, assumptions and understandings; to engage in rich dialogue and discussion; and to work out meaningful solutions to real problems.

Building upon the inclusive and participatory nature of the LEGO System, LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® rejects the idea that external ‘experts’ must be brought in to identify problems, and to propose solutions; on the contrary, LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® begins with the assumption that the answers are ‘already in the room’, and invites participants to ‘think with their hands’ to build their understandings. Every member of the team participates, and everyone has a voice.

PHASE
~~ALPHA~~ / ~~BETA~~ / OFFICIAL

The Rory’s Story Cubes® are nine cubes with images on every face. You can give them a good shake, roll them out, and start storytelling using the pictures.

They are a very simple but powerful tool currently used in many countries and different areas.

Cubes main strength is the possibility to inspect deeply any kind of issue and, thanks to the power of images, create a shared vision of the topic.

They enable persons and groups to conversate and cocreate.

In the first place, our idea is to use them in two first scopes.
The first one is helping people in the discovering and evolution of their professional identity.
The second one is focused on designing new agile retrospectives for team continuous improvement.

So, we are working in the development of new Rory’s Story Cubes® practices.

PHASE
ALPHA

DATES
08/03/2016 Alpha