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Laura Kent | Level Four and Five Textiles in Practice | Manchester School of Art

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Friday, 14 March 2014

Collaborative Sandwich Workshop

"sitting on a small island, you will work with a table of strangers to make your ideal lunch. You are going to compose a lunch with different ingredients, negotiate and make decisions over textures, tastes and colours: sweet, savoury, sour, bitter, salty, umami, crunchy, gooey...
...Come and experience creating together in another form: food."
If I had told me I was going to be taking part in a workshop that involved making sandwiches at any other point of my degree course; I never would have believed it, but that's the beauty of unit x, always unpredictable.

Although thinking back to the session still makes me laugh, it was a really rewarding workshop. Put into an unknown situation; working with groups of students from a range of practices and levels meant that using communication skills was of vital importance. I really enjoy getting to know new people, so it comes as no shock that I threw myself into the leadership role. Organising ourselves and discussing our likes/ hates of foods showed group discussion and collaboration, which were equally as important during the 'construction' of our sandwiches (hilarious, I know).  After we had created our first sandwich, which was given to another table, we then had to create our own. Our group all agreed on the same ingredients, however we decided that instead of making a collaborative sandwich and sharing, we would use the same ingredients and see who could create the best masterpiece. Healthy competition is always good fun

Overall all this meant that we were able to use both our collaborative and individual approaches in this workshop, both of which I feel to be needed in the success of Unit X.