Thinking Out-Of-The-Box , Board Game Idea Presentation and Cooler Lumpur Festival

Last Sunday , I attended a workshop called Thinking Out-Of-The-Box , organised by the Utar Soft Skill Competency Department . In fact , I was one of the very few juniors from the FCI who attended the workshop . The other attendees were either seniors , from another faculty , or from another campus altogether .

During the workshop , we were divided into groups of seven . There were five groups . The speaker was Mr. Dev Kumr Sankey . Throughout the 8 hour workshop , we participated in many fun activities , including team poster designing , the nine-dots challenge , brain dominance test , idea generation using scamper method , image analysis , building an animal out of straws , and mind-mapping .

All the activities completed by groups were given marks at the end of the workshop . My group placed second overall . In the end , we were given a handout to read . Coincidentally , there was a segment about the six thinking hats discussed in class last Friday .

 Handout courtesy of Mr. Dev Kumr Sankey of Strategic Training Resources

The previous Thursday , during the tutorial part of Game Design Foundations class ,the six of us (students) were asked to present our board game ideas for the final project of this class . In the end , we voted for the idea that we thought was the best . The winning idea with 5 votes was "Conquest" .

Slides courtesy of Grace Cheng Mei Yenn

My own idea "Escape From Nightmare House" got only 4 votes .

The paper prototype of the "Conquest" board game will have to be completed by next week .

Finally , our Creative Writing class went on a field trip yesterday . The trip was to the Cooler Lumpur Festival event held at Publika . Saturday was the second day of the 3 day event . I attended 3 programmes there , namely " New Malay Literature : The Changing Face of the Malay Author " , " Should Literature Be Political? " , and " Readings " . Readings was an event where several authors read their works out loud to the audience as opposed to the readers reading through print .

Pamphlet courtesy of the Cooler Lumpur Festival organising committee

Overall , it has been quite a fun and exciting week . The Thinking Out-Of-The-Box workshop and the Cooler Lumpur Festival events in particular should be useful in my future assignments .