Shaping your Shelter - PowerPoint Presentation

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Shaping your Shelter

Goal

To support humanitarian shelter teams to motivate volunteers and communities to acquire more knowledge about safe construction and about improving the structural stability of constructions.Learning ObjectivesInspire further learning about safe building methods: in particular “bracing”Open dialogue about constructing hazard-resistant homes & for recovery building back more hazard-resistant homes

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This game was developed with support from the American Red Cross (International Services Team).

Designed by

Pablo Suarez, Rosana Morganti, Martin Badie, Wade Kimbrough, Carina Bachofen and Janot Mendler de Suarez for the Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre.

Acknowledgements

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Preparation: Pre-Game

For each team of 3 players:

30 Wooden sticks: can be pencils, chopsticks, any long thin pointy pieces, broken into two different lengths (short and long)50 Elastic bands: to fasten sticks for building1 Pizza box, or any cardboard surface ~ 40 x 40 centimeters5 pawns to represent people, 1 marker at least 5 inches high, to ensure structures are tall enough to fit people

1 square piece of plastic ~ 30

x 30 centimeters (to simulate tarp)1 cup of dry pasta (e.g

macaroni) or similar small objects per team (to simulate rain)Facilitator’s materials1

Wind Speed die: 6-sided

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Wind Direction die: 8-sided

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/compass directions*

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Earthquake Magnitude die: 10-sided

Prizes

: small candy or similar reward for winning team

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Preparation: Facilitator

Playspace

RequirementsTables for 1, 2 or 3 teams of 3 players each. Game can be played sitting on the floor.Set UpOrganize seating arrangements for teams of 3 players. To begin, each team gets:8 pencils20 elastic bands

1 cardboard box or surface: draw a square in the center, 6x6 inches and designate which side of the box is the ‘North’ side

5 pawns: representing a household1 tarp

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Playing the Game: Introduction

Explain Players’ Objective in game:

A severe earthquake has just left thousands of people homeless. Your family has relocated to a new area in the same region. You are tasked with using limited building materials to build back your shelter and protect your household from the impacts of future hazards.” How to win? The team with the fewest “insecurity points” at the end of 3 rounds wins the game. Additional incentives can be offered (such as “prize for the most creative shelter”)

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Playing the Game: Sequence

Year 1: players have 5 minutes, limited materials to build shelter

Countdown…stop! Invite observations on different structuresAnnounce Earthquake aftershocks, roll earthquake dieResolve consequences of earthquake, tally insecurity pointsYear 2: Red Cross (Facilitator) provides additional building materialsPlayers have 3-5 minutes to build back stronger shelters

Announce ‘some rains’ (see if pawns get wet)

Announce likelihood of strong winds, players roll windspeed dice

Discuss with teams perceived vulnerabilitiesYear 3: Announce climate change, provide teams with additional materials, players have 5 minutes to continue to build sheltersInvite

debrief on

building methods, drawing on the teams’

structures

to indicate what works in the real world,

what

does not work and why not

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Debrief: Discussion prompts

Invite players to form new groups and reflect on what are the structural elements of each shelter that help make them robust to extreme winds and earthquakes.

Groups select one insight to share with the rest of the participants. Note: facilitator can introduce or amplify the value of structural bracing.7Slide8

Facilitation Tips

Explain:

The game is a hugely simplified representation of reality, and shelter experts have valuable information about how communities can best use construction materials to create structures that are as resilient and durable as possible given materials, labor and time constraints.Stick to allocated time for each ‘year’ of activity. Players experiencing insufficient time to build their structures can simulate ‘real life’ where a disaster can strike at any time. The purpose of this playful activity is to inspire people to learn more about the best options for building better shelter.8