The workshop "Borrowed Identity", Page 1

In this workshop students:
- thought about your own identity
- got in touch with a real family on Achill Island
- discovered, what life is like on Achill Island
- ...and what your life would be like if you were born there
- develop a documentation video

In our intercultural workshop there are different roles.
There are:
- a family member of a typical family on Achill
- 2 friends visiting person Nr. 1 and his or her family
- a student cameraman for filming the scenario

What would your life have been like if you were born on Achill
Island, Ireland?
This was the leading question of the workshop for our participants.
As our workshop required a very intercultural group of students,
Antje & Theo (the workshop leaders) started during the preparatory
online-phase to preselect the students. Five students were interested
and formed our dream team: Ingrida from Lithuania, Frederick
from the Philippines, Jesus from Spain, Michael from France and
Matthias from Germany.
On our trainride from Dublin to Westport our first real task of the
workshop started: The “borrowed identity” questionnaire.
The students sat together in intercultural teams of two and interviewed
each other. Every student was asked to fill in answers to several questions on identity and to make up an own Irish identity.
On Saturday the workshop members had their first real meeting and were introduced to the general idea of the workshop and the concept of borrowed identity. Our man on Achill, Karsten, managed to get us in contact with Mary, a real Irish mother from the Island, an open hearted and very friendly woman, working at Achill Tourism.
The workshop consisted above all of a role play that should be turned into a film later:

What has happened:

Mary plays the role of Mary and stays nearly the same as in real life. She is
playing an Irish mother.
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Click on the picture to get a .wmv video about the workshop (18MB)

Download a Powerpoint Presentation of the Borrowed Identity workshop