![]() To achieve the aim of the workshop the constructivism design studio environment was applied as a major component for learning architecture. The targeted youth audience represented a population not likely to consider the study of architecture and that was a relevant factor in the workshop creation. This workshop simulated the real-life architecture experience to two different age groups of young learners: kids from 7-10 years old and teens from 11-17 years old. The workshop took place in the Faculty of Engineering at Ain Shams University, Egypt as a part of a department of Architecture activity week in the year 2013. This paper aims at presenting the lessons learned during the planning, initiation and execution of an experimental youth workshop named ""How to make your own Dream House?". This suggests that when the people represented are not involved in the writing process, the national story dramatically influences the ways in which the characters are written. Interviews and reflection on instances of cultural misappropriation produced a story that began to counter to this narrative. It suggests that prior to interviews and self-reflection, the writing followed the dominant narrative told about refugees, referred to here as ‘the national story’ (Birch 2013), which played up victimhood and played down racism. This paper compares the first two drafts of the manuscript. The first was produced through fieldwork and observation, the second after interviews and the third through feedback. In order to explore this concept, I wrote a novel manuscript about the everyday lives of four characters from refugee backgrounds in three drafts. A look into how novels of this kind are written can contribute to the debate of writing the other. But there is little work on the difference between stories that have been constructed with consultation of the people represented and those that have not. At the same time, writing that explores the migration story of people from refugee backgrounds, written by writers from those backgrounds as well as writers who have not had those experiences, has become increasingly more common (see Menchu 1984 Nazer & Lewis 2003 Eggers 2006 Cleave 2008 de Kretser 2012 Al Muderis & Weaver 2014). This can be seen as a kind of ventriloquism (Couser 1998), stereotypical and racist characterisation (Leane 2016), and lead to further oppression since the privileged person is the one who speaks rather than the group represented (Alcoff 1991). They look great in different sizes to make a whole fleet.There has been increasing criticism of mainstream writers who create characters from marginalised cultural backgrounds different to their own, especially when those characters are written from the first-person perspective. If you get it just right, it should stand up by itself! Lastly, fold the bottom point back to form the bottom of your boat.Once your model looks right, press and crease all the folds well.Gently press the bottom together to encourage the creases – you’re after a big triangle at the bottom and 2 smaller triangles at the top.The next step can be a bit fiddly, but the previous folds will help you out! Pick the model up and press gently in the centre the middle should go down and the outside edges should come up!.…then fold this point back, but instead of folding from the original crease, fold a little way in from that.Next, fold the left point into the centre….Do the same with the top point, so they meet in the middle.Take the bottom point and fold it up to meet the centre. ![]() The next picture shows how the creases sit.Turning the paper 90 degrees, fold the bottom point under and up to meet the top point.You should be left with folds dissecting the paper into neat quarters.Do the same thing, this time folding the other way, to create the horizontal fold crease and open up fully.Fold in half from side to side, making sure the edges line up crease and unfold.We’ll be folding it horizontally then vertically to start with, creating a grid of quarters. If you don’t have a creasing tool, you can use the back of your thumb nail to help crease. Start with your paper square as shown above.Use a fairly thin square of paper, and remember to fold neatly and crease firmly after each step. ![]() This simple origami boat is a fun model to fold. ![]()
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