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What?
Break Bread, Test Government is a workshop and manifesto designed to show individuals how collaboration can solve complex issues with solutions that benefit the many, not the few.
The workshop functions by hiding the true purpose of making a loaf bread through dividing instructions, knowledge and equipment into a step by step process where individuals have to communicate to progress using only the tools they have in front of them.
Why?
The concept of the workshop is designed to educate individuals that their unique process to solve problems is innately more valuable to the wider system in place.
How?
Bread becomes the mirage that forces collective problem solving and became a way to make metaphor for how I believe government can solve all of the countries problems using all of the people and resources within.
This abstraction led to the creation of the Break Bread Manifesto, which was a parallel between the bread making process and how I saw Government can mirror the Bread Making Process when creating Policies.
As a result of not relaying direction or instructions, the group self organises on a basis that the individuals involved learn to communicate, share and create innovation in a non-hierarchical manner that suits the group the most.
In theory this workshop would be able to be ran with several policy designers, an MP, one business owner and a member of public, to show different departments in Gov. the importance of understanding user needs and share my belief of assumptions and how they can not be integrated into a service.
Running the workshop with several different groups of individuals: business owners, college students and the general public it proved the value of collaboration. I am currently developing a website that any group, organisation or individual could download and run the workshop.
Parallels between Bread, Government & Businesses as a way to understand the similarities in process and innovation.
Running the Break Bread workshop in a college with business & economics students.
Circular map to see where existing business can improve the efficiency of their logistics and business.
Illustrations used across assets for the project, inspired by governmental analogies.
Pages from Break Bread Manifesto.
Pages from Break Bread Manifesto.
Mapping the character profiles for the workshop during a design sprint.
The First "Collaborative" loaf.
Testing an early stage of the workshop with real users.