Kabubu:
Refugee Integration Workshop
About
Kabubu is a french association which promotes professional and social inclusion of exiled persons through the unifying values of sports!
Myself and another designer were called to do a design sprint with Kabubu. The outcome would support the team as they launched a new initiative for corporate awareness surrounding migrant issues and potential to help.
The Brief
Challenge
How to share information and build awareness around migration in a work environment through a playful/interactive workshop?
Deliverable
A 2.5h to 3h team building workshop providing a playful learning user experience including facilitation guidelines.
Constraints
- Can be both facilitated live or in a zoom call
- A non-native french speaker can play a part
- Should create interactions between people
- Use sports as a leitmotiv
- Not convey a commiserating image of migrants
Investigation
We worked closely with Simoné, co-director from the Kabubu team, to develop the foundation of the workshop.
We collected resources and learnings from previous workshops the team had done.
We collected research resources to learn more about refugee integration in France.
We collected insights about the target audience for the workshop.
We also collected insights about similar projects and initiatives regarding refugee integration in France and internationally.
Ecosystem mapping and insights
Picture from Kabubu’s previously created game.
Ideation and Prototyping
We brainstormed a few ideas that could be transferred between in person and online meetings. We settled on series of events that involved a race between multiple small teams to collect the most points.
Testing
The first workshop was tested with a corporate team and feedback was collected based on their impression of the workshop.
The workshop was created to adapt to the constraints of lockdown. We tested it via zoom with a corporate team.
Feedback and Final Deliverable
The feedback from the initial prototype testing with a corporate team and with Kabubu resulted in:
More discussion between each challenge round.
Adding a bonus challenge that asked the team to take what they learned into action by becoming a partner with Kabubu or engaging more with initiatives for migrants integration in their team and community.
More reflection on terminology and motivation related to migration.
