Environmental community leisure
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In the workplanning, some degree of leisure is to be foreseen. This would be done in order to promote positive social interaction and group spirit between all members (including those not part of one's own team), and provide further diversification.
The leisure to be foreseen is to include:
- Dancing sessions
- Digital gaming
- Yawara-jitsu
- Running
In addition, jobpooling (where certain people agree to switch low-tech jobs at certain times) is also to be foreseen to keep the workers intrested and sharp.
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[edit] Dancing sessions
As a form of active leisure, dancing is to be foreseen at a especially created space (preferably outdoors). Aldough it could be foreseen after the workday (late afternoon), it can also be foreseen at mornings. The dancing location is to be foreseen of a either a standalone music playing system either or speakers connected to the education system computer. A person is to be charged with the instructing of the dance pases. The instructor is to be educated on all types of main dance styles (eg jig, waltz, tango, disco, salsa, electronica, hip-hop, breakdancing, Krumping, African dance). Also, the appropriate music is to be made available trough the music playing system or speakers.
[edit] Digital gaming
Digital gaming is to be included to provide the workers a type of leisure at times when they are tired and not keen on doing a more active form of leisure. Aldough this leisure system is somewhat harder to set up than the average card game, it is certainly to be preferred over a pack of cards as it has is more internationally orientated and anyone (no matter where one came from) would be able to join in. The digital gaming is to be done trough the use of a special game-system connected to the projector already used in the education system. However, in order to mentally seperate the game system from the education system (projector), the projector should only be controllable on the game system after it has physically switched location (by means of a rail system).
The rail system is to have 3 standpoints; one on which it is placed when using the education system with the projector; another railpoint when the games system is connected and board games are played (projector than beaming straight downwards; supports 2-16 players) and another when communal (minimum of 2 players) open-source or freeware, casual games, rts-games or 3rd person shooters are played (for 4 players). Security personnel is to be barred from these latter sources of entertainment, to eliminate distractions and uphold a responsible image. All games should have short game times and should be non-addictive; examples are the games from the playstation network (if made open-source) and party games.
The board games to be played should be global games. Examples of board games are thus pachisi, perakulatima, backgammon, caroms, senet, wari, choo-hong-ki, halma; asalto, ... The board games are to be controlled using a single microphone and voice recognition (understanding commands as "player 5; horse to C-8"), or alternatively trough a sensor (eg PS3 eye-toy). The game computer is to be self-contained; to eliminate the potential of corruption of the education computer, use read-only information (eg as with ps3/xbox,Wii ... game discs) and again mentally seperate the education system from the game system.
Possible options are a open sourced game console (eg Uzebox) or pc with relatively fast graphics card (playing the open-sourced games via emulation).
[edit] Yawara-jitsu/aikido
As the establishments need to be able to be placed anywhere (including more dangerous environments), and as the establishments are intented to be visited by workers travelling trough these areas, yawara-jitsu (which is a gentle self-defence sport), is to be included as a form of leisure. Yawara-jitsu/aikido instructs the pupil of defending oneself by disabling attackers without permanently wounding them. Some techniques which are useful can be found at Generic fighting style
[edit] Running
Running can be done when one feels to. It can be done alone or alternatively with a friend. No group sessions would however be organised.
