Creative workshops – Join the build!


What we can do together:

We create hands-on, high-energy team experiences where creativity is the adventure. We guide groups in building large creatures, costumes, sets, parades, fashion shows, games, animations and playful performances together.

We use cardboard, hot glue, drawing, animation, movement and/or collage, but mostly: collective imagination.

Why people and teams love it:

Cardboarders workshops work well for teambuilding because:

– Everyone contributes something visible
– Decisions happen collectively and playfully
– Hierarchies dissolve
– People get out of their heads and into action
– The result is something no one could have made alone
– It’s unconventional, embodied, fast, improvisational, social, and FUN

The only thing we need from you is:

– Group size (10–300+)
– Location
– Time available ( 3 hour to multi-day)
– Theme or purpose
– Energy level (high-adventure or slow-and-poetic)
– Electricity, a roof and tables

We can come to your office, school, gym hall, foyer, festival site, theater, classroom, barn, warehouse, or random parking lot.

Formats:

We have different workshop formats fit for groups of 10-100 people (customizable). We also have walk-in workshops that can be hosted at festivals that can go up to thousands of people.

Creative arena: building large creatures, parades of characters, fashion shows, with masks, costumes and movement, often around a theme.

Automata/ mechanical puppet builds, sculptures with animation and movement (not as hard as it sounds)

Cardboard Design challenges /games

Walk-in collaborative animation workshops with zoetropes, lightpainting, stop motion

Hands on magazine making and printing on old mimeographs

Event/show openers: creative and activating interactive openings for the kick offs or events

Interactive talks / presentations about creativity: immediately shown with live interactive examples

Quotes:

“We forgot we were coworkers.”

“I found out I actually am the engineer of our group”

“I laughed the entire time and did things I would never normally try.”

“All the structures were temporary, perfection has no power while doing this”

Workshop Clients:

Tony Chocolony, Horecava, Nowhere, Awakenings, Lowlands, Q-Dance, Cardboardia, HKU, Ekoplaza, Kaboom Animation Festival, Willem de Kooning Academie, Jaarbeurs Utrecht, Atlassian, Amsterdam RAI, OXFAM, FreedomLabs and many others