Community Auction
This activity encourages critical analysis, negotiation, and prioritization, allowing participants to evaluate proposals based on their impact, relevance, and feasibility.
How to run it
- Explain the objective of the activity: evaluating and prioritizing projects through a participatory auction.
- Clarify that symbolic money represents available resources and must be distributed strategically.
- Each team presents their project to the group, highlighting:
- Limit presentations to 3-5 minutes per proposal.
- Participatory Methods Community Auction Community Auction The Community Auction is a participatory activity where different projects or proposals “bid” for symbolic resources allocated by a group of participants acting as investors.
- This activity encourages critical analysis, negotiation, and prioritization, allowing participants to evaluate proposals based on their impact, relevance, and feasibility.
- Prepare the proposals: Ask participants in advance to develop clear and concrete proposals, including information such as: Project description.
- Symbolic resources: Define the total amount of “symbolic money” to be distributed among the investors (this could be play money, tokens, or points).
- Design the auction: Create a list of proposals to be auctioned and set a time limit for each round.
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Explain the objective of the activity: evaluating and prioritizing projects through a participatory auction.
This activity encourages critical analysis, negotiation, and prioritization, allowing participants to evaluate proposals based on their impact, relevance, and feasibility.
Prepare the proposals: Ask participants in advance to develop clear and concrete proposals, including information such as: Project description.
Symbolic resources: Define the total amount of “symbolic money” to be distributed among the investors (this could be play money, tokens, or points).
Design the auction: Create a list of proposals to be auctioned and set a time limit for each round.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Community Auction. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Explain the objective of the activity: evaluating and prioritizing projects through a participatory auction.; This activity encourages critical analysis, negotiation, and prioritization, allowing participants to evaluate proposals based on their impact, relevance, and feasibility.; Prepare the proposals: Ask participants in advance to develop clear and concrete proposals, including information such as: Project description.; Symbolic resources: Define the total amount of “symbolic money” to be distributed among the investors (this could be play money, tokens, or points).. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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