Activities – Untold Stories

ACTIVIDADES

El juego es un medio poderoso para invitar nuevas formas de curiosidad, interacción, y cuidado. No permite contar historias distintas acerca de nuestros mundos. Hemos preparado una serie de actividades para inspirar, estimular la curiosidad y provocar nuevas formas de pensar en nuestro ambiente compartido para aprender a prestar atención a tantas formas ignoradas de vida compartida.

Les invitamos a compartir sus experiencias en esta plataforma. Untoldstories.site es un espacio para compartir sus perspectivas y sus mundos con otros para estimular un diálogo acerca de nuestros mundos diversos y compartidos.

Exploren nuestras actividades. Hagan bestiarios caseros, escriban cartas para plantas, creen retratos sonoros de sus mundos!

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¡CONOCE A TUS MONSTRUOS!

BESTIARIOS CASEROS

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¿CÓMO

If spotted would you sweep, clean, vacuum, pull-out, weed-out, fumigate, trap or otherwise eradicate from your home?

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HAS THE BEAST MADE ITSELF AT HOME?

INVASIVE

If spotted would you sweep, clean, vacuum, pull-out, weed-out, fumigate, trap or otherwise eradicate from your home?

TO INTRUDE

If spotted would you sweep, clean, vacuum, pull-out, weed-out, fumigate, trap or otherwise eradicate from your home?

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How to spot the wild ones

Walk around your house paying special attention to corners, edges and dark nookes.

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Get to know the Nature of the Beast

You can download inaturalist and Picture This apps on your cellphone to find out a bit more about what kind of beasts these intruders are.

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Pay attention to how these wild creatures make themselves at home in your house.

LISTEN

SMELL

WATCH

You can download inaturalist and Picture This apps on your cellphone to find out a bit more about what kind of beasts these intruders are.

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Watch for patterns.

How do these creatures dwell and live in your home?

How do these beast share their dens with other creatures?

What do they need to live? Do you need them?

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Gather Evidence

TAKE PICTURES

TAKE NOTES OR DRAW

MAKE AUDIO RECOARDINGS

The more detail you’re able to capture, the better—we often don’t know what is most interesting or important about an observation until much later. Recording, in any format, is always a way of paying attention and of giving oneself to the possibility that these beasts are worth thinking about.

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BE HOSPITABLE

INVASIVE

adjective

favorably receptive or open (usually followed by to)
characterized by or betokening warmth and generosity toward guests or strangers.

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Has your home become a space where
you dwell with numerous beasts?

Is it made up of homes within homes?

Have you made a friend or two?

Have you, per chance, become a beast?

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To make your house beastiary follow these steps

You must create an account on Untoldstories.site

You can upload your notes, drawings, audio, pictures, and videos

Share your experience

Tell others about your homes and its inhabitants

Be as playful and creative as you want, this is your story and your shared home.

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We hope that in sharing your bestiary you will offer an opening to the diverse, wondrous worlds we share with other beings.

A bestiary, after all, is an opening into other kinds of worlds that begins by attending to the incredible interactions unfolding all around us, often entirely unnoticed. A bestiary is a collection of beings noticed and given to wonder.