Facilitating skills (3 ec)

Learning outcome assignment: 'Is able to translate knowledge and insight about the concept of facilitating skills into the design and implementation of a session, and its evaluation'.

By facilitating, designing and running sessions yourself, you will find out what works and what doesn't and how you can design and organize valuable sessions. These skills are important in iterating, testing and co-creating to arrive at meaningful placemaking concepts.

 To arrive at a meaningful placemaking concept, it is important to design and organize multiple sessions (creative session, expert session, place game, test session) to gain the necessary insights.

In the context of developing skills in the field of facilitating skills, you as a project group will design and implement the following sessions:

• Week 5: Place game (formative all groups)
• Week 9: Creative session or 
• Week 11/12/13: Short Term Experiments

The planning for these sessions will be made by the coaches and published on MS Teams. For the assignment Facilitating Skills (3 ec), you as a group will either be assessed on the creative session or on the short-term experiments by the coaches. For the session that is not assessed by the coaches, you have to write as a group an evaluation report.

Creative session - Redbadpark Middelsee (2024)

Study the how, what and why of facilitating skills and determine the goal of your session. Create your design based on the purpose of your session and discuss it with your coach. Make sure that you discuss the design including argumentation with your coach and send the invitation to all participants at least 10 days before the session. Share the script with the assessing coaches at least 48 hours in advance.

You can find out how the assignment is assessed in the rubric. You can also download the Dutch version of the rubric.

Creative session - Stadsklooster (2023)

Workshop Facilitating Skills (2024)