Drama patterns: Seeing the patterns from within
Aleksandra Vranić, Valentino Vranić, Branislava Vranić · 2019
This report summarizes a focus group on drama patterns we organized at EuroPLoP 2019. Apart from the organizers, the focus group attracted eight participants, who together built a short drama play entitled The Real Red Riding Hood (created by Aleksandra Vranić). The play went through three settings with the final setting involving three drama patterns and one fundamental property (as defined by Alexander): Thoughts Reflecting Environment, Reversed Advantage, Disbelieved Identity, and Echoes. In addition, the participants tried out a name learning game based on the Thoughts Reflecting Environment pattern. The final setting was performed at the conference banquet without any further rehearsals (the focus group took only 75 minutes), followed by numerous informal discussions and reflections on how drama patterns could be beneficial for achieving a better understanding of the concept of a pattern, pattern composition, and pattern language, and for education in general. The focus group once more confirmed the effectiveness and efficiency of drama patterns that has been observed so far.