Some resources on LEGO Serious Play
As my workshop with the Women in BIM group and my class at Autodesk University in San Diego approach, many of you asked me to provide additional resources on the LEGO Serious Play methodology, so here’s a handful of them. Foundations and State of the Art the LEGO SERIOUS PLAY Open Source Guide Issued by […]
As my workshop with the Women in BIM group and my class at Autodesk University in San Diego approach, many of you asked me to provide additional resources on the LEGO Serious Play methodology, so here’s a handful of them.
Foundations and State of the Art
- the LEGO SERIOUS PLAY Open Source Guide Issued by LEGO Group (uploaded on Slideshare by Marko Rillo);
- Johan Roos (one olf the inventors of the method), Thinking from Within: A Hands-on Strategy Practice (2006)
- Sean Blair and Marko Rillo, Serious Work: How to Facilitate Meetings and Workshops Using the LEGO SERIOUS PLAY Method (2016) and Building a Better Business Using the Lego Serious Play Method (2014);
- the methodology explained by the Seriousplay Community;
- Matt Statler and Johan Roos, Everyday Strategic Preparedness (2007);
- Stuart Brown and Christopher Vaughan, Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul (2009);
- Stefano Tardini, Elisabetta Frick, Lorenzo Cantoni, White Paper on LEGO ® SERIOUS PLAY A state of the art of its applications in Europe on ResearchGate or here.
Facilitation Techniques
- Sean Blair, MASTERING the LEGO® Serious Play® method: 44 facilitation techniques on serious.global;
- Jacquie Lloyd Smith and Denise Meyerson, Strategic Play: The Creative Facilitator’s Guide #2: What the Duck! (2017);
- Loizos Heracleous and Claus Jacobs, Crafting Strategy: Embodied Metaphors in Practice (2011);
- David Gauntlett, Creative Explorations: New Approaches to Identities and Audiences (2007) and Making is Connecting (2011);
- Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo, Gamestorming (2010) including over 80 games to help facilitate creative thinking and problem-solving.
Sector Applications
- Julia Trebbin, Gaining Insights Through LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® as a Brand Research Tool – LET IT CLICK WITH THE BRICK (2016) on LeanSP;
- Mads Bab and Ilona Boniwell, LEGO Serious Play for Positive Psychology (here);
- Caitlin Ferreira, Unlocking Student Creativity with LEGO® Serious Play: a Case Study from the Graduate Marketing Classroom (2024) published in the Journal of Marketing Education;
- Sean McCusker, Lego® Serious PlayTM: Thinking about Teaching and Learning (2014) reclaiming LSP for the educational domain (here).
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