CRAFT-BASED WORKSHOP DESIGN

f-Activities: Folding and Cutting

(craft as a basic design pattern for learning)

Folding and Cutting workshop in Singapore — flaleman 2025

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I have been using crafts as a learning design format since the very beginning of my work almost a half century ago. In another Medium piece, I have shared how I use Folding & Cutting as a device for students learning Sanskrit:

Using crafts in everything we do

In the present piece I offer an example from my business practice: In a large corporate organization in the financial sector, we introduced zero-PowerPoint, non-agenda driven, multisensorial workshops — where bankers and IT engineers can be seen folding and cutting sheets of paper as if they were in Kindergarten.

Feel free to use this format with whatever learning content.

Here is what we do:

1 Have a table ready with three times as much A4 or A3 sheets as there are participants.

2 Show the participants one sheet, pre-printed in a seemingly…