Techniques

Here you can find a list of the techniques used in our exercises. These techniques are endlessly adaptable. Techniques are a level below an exercise. They are nothing in themselves, they are frames on which exercises can be woven which are more specific to the problem you’re exploring. To understand how to do this, have a look at some of the associated exercises, and see how the techniques have been used in practice.

Techniques might just be frameworks, but they are not the very basic components of pedagogy. The basic components are modes, which you can read more about here.

Describe It Again
A framework to investigate abstract concepts, cliches, or tropes.

Writing Instead Of Talking
Why we don’t talk much. 

Simultaneous Work On The Same Problem
A basic way to avoid unproductive divisions of labour

Portals
A way to examine a text and your relationship to it with a group of people

Social Division of Labour
How to give people roles in a task

Revolutionaries in the Mirror
Bringing extraordinary people down to earth and talking with them

Mixing Languages
Avoiding monolingualism in pedagogy, especially in a mixed-language group

Song Rewriting
Making culture from existing revolutionary culture