On December 8th, IDSP hosted a multi-lingual newspaper blackout story event for students to de-stress from finals week, get creative, and create something cool!
Here are the top 1o reasons that newspaper blackouts are the greatest…….
1.They Can Be Done in Multiple Languages
Students used newspaper cut-outs to create blackout stories in Chinese, English, French, German, Korean, Spanish, and Japanese.
2. They Play Around with “Meaning”
In a newspaper blackout story, you un-assign meaning to the original story, and use its words as raw data – to be rearranged into a new story, with new meaning.
The original story of this piece was an article in Spanish about new technologies in open heart surgery.
3. They Have Limits
Sometimes limitations can liberate the creative process. Writing a story or poem from scratch can often be daunting.
The limitation of having a pre-determined word bank to work from can actually help the creative process.
4. They only Take About 10 Minutes
Because we are all busy.
5.They Get Your Creative Juices Flowing.
6. You May Learn Something New
If you choose to read your article before you take a sharpie to it.
7. They Are Welcome Break From Finals Week
At the #IDSP16 event at MIIS students took a break from studying for a little innovation and rejuvenation.
Because graduate school is hard.
8. They Tell a Story
Storytelling breeds connection, understanding, empathy, communication, action and entertainment
9.They Bring People Together
At the Blackout Newspaper Story event, multi-lingual students from different programs, staff, and professors all came together to make stories.
10. They Are Fun
Because that is important too!
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