“If your hands are busy and maybe your eyes need to be focused on something, you can talk about things that aren’t so easy when you’re directly looking at someone.”

Here are objects shared by participants in the research project, together with accompanying stories about their objects. Through individual interviews and two group storytelling workshops, Katy invited Fun Palace Makers to bring with them items that represent their involvement in a Fun Palace (e.g. something they made at a Fun Palace, a photograph, something that conveys the atmosphere of the day, or something else!), and/or something related to their wider civic activism/community activities/activism.

Slime

Cardboard Box Palace

Matchboxes

Bubbles Recipes

3D House

Dynamite

Nom Nom Cookbook

Nón Lá (Vietnamese conical hat)

The Archer’s Arrows Activities Book

Typewriting Poetry