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Methodology
The methodology is based on simulation. Participants will simu-
late the birth and development of a new nation.
Process described step by step
• Divide the participants into two teams;
• Ask each team to find a well-defined place to go to develop
activity away from the other team;
• Ask each team to create its own form of government, partici-
pants are free to self-organize but they have an obligation to
choose one person who will be responsible for foreign affairs
relations;
• The responsible of foreign affairs will have to go to the “inter-
national consulate” to obtain useful buildings to build his own
city;
• After 30 minutes, the consulate opens, and in turn the various
responsibles are approached;
• Responsibles will find a list of buildings, such as: school,
park, power station, police station, etc., buildings on the list
are only presented once;
• It is requested to select up to 5 buildings out of ten;
• Those who come first have the right to choose from the other;
• Widening buildings from the list asks each team to create a
representation of their own city / government with the only
buildings they choose;
• It then proceeds to the presentation of the cities / government
by stimulating the competition between the participants, ma-
king it to believe that it is a race;
• It will be deduced that none of the cities / governments have
all the buildings and therefore no one can be considered valid
or a good place to live.
• It will be noted that the two teams would have to communica-
te with each other.
• Discussion will then be on the topic of co-operation and in-
ter-active dynamics during activation.
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