Dear Jennifer, I believe for having animated other courses with illeterate people, that on must try to be creative. Illeterate people have other ways to remember and keep memories. I would try to find objects, which would represent the topic the want to discuss, or to create objects... TO keep tracks of their proposition i would tape it or make pictures. Besides the difficulties are that illiterate people would not necesseraly trust the one who is writing for them. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.
Another way might be to trust the capacity of people to tell the story of what happened in their workshop. Concerning the complain of writing down the floor, i invit people to go back to the chair and then to come back to the center, to take the microfon and to say their topic and so on. good luck anyhow Catherine Corbaz Catherine Corbaz Ch.des Roseaux 20 Ch-2503 Bienne +41 (0)32 323 38 43 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jennifer Hurley" <jlhur...@hfadesign.com> To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 2:13 AM Subject: Re: OST with handicapped persons > I've taken to saying "if you think your handwriting is too messy, or have trouble > getting down on the floor, feel free to ask a neighbor to help write your topic". I > started saying that when I was working in a small rural town that had a very high > illiteracy rate. People are often embarrassed about being illiterate, so I wanted > to give people an excuse for asking for help. > > BTW, every time I've opened space, someone has complained about having to > get down on the floor to write their topic. Have other people experienced this? > How do you respond? > > Jennifer Hurley > > ===================== > Hurley~Franks & Associates > Planning & Urban Design > 215-988-9440 > http://www.hfadesign.com > 1429 Walnut St. > Philadelphia, PA 19102 > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
