Impact Report 2018 StreetwiZe • Mobile School

MS Playground • development of DIY games
20/09/2018
Sander Degeling
Joke Verreth
Rob Sweldens
Lies De Vocht
Educational volunteers
MS Playground
Leuven / Belgium
With the Mobile School Playground, a web
based platform, Mobile School aims to boost
the creativity of street educators worldwide. Until
now, our partners were able to have a look at
the best games developed during StreetwiZe
expeditions or during Mobile School exchange
programmes. For each game, pictures and a
manual are available to give more insight in
the game rules. However, the street educators
of our partners still had to invest a lot of time
in making the games before they were able to
take the new concepts to the streets. In fact,
we’ve noticed it’s a challenge for street educators
to find enough time to reproduce these
new games.
In September 2018, we therefore launched the
second part of the Mobile School Playground:
the Do-it-yourself games. Together with the educational
workgroup and local street work partners
from Europe and Latin America, we were
able to create a total of 17 attractive ready-toprint
game boards. Six of these games were
developed by the educational volunteers
during two project cycles of three meetings in
the year 2018.
The goal of the DIY games is that partner
organisations can easily print the game boards
themselves, so they just need to attach them to
the back side of an existing Mobile School panel.
By doing so, we aim to limit the preparation
time to create new activities. Moreover, we aim
to offer a wide range of extra games that street
educators can easily use on the mobile school.
In order to make the games as accessible as possible,
street educators can find both a written
and a video manual on the platform so they can
quickly understand and play the game with their
target group on the streets.
In 2019, new DIY games will be developed with
the educational volunteers. A first feedback round
will be organised with our street work partners to
see how the street educators evaluate both the
inspiration and the DIY games on the MS Playground.
This feedback will be valuable input for
the development of the state-of-the-art platform
we’re developing in the Erasmus+ project.
IMPACT
17 ready-to-print DIY games on the educational platform
New manuals and video manuals to explain the games
Introduction video on how to use the DIY games
Continuous follow-up on the use of the DIY games by partners
2 project cycles of 3 meetings with the educational volunteers
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