SHUBIDUBI
Sessions for groups
A session on printed sheets of tasks.
No tech
no briefing
no evaluation
How it works
1. A room with tables.
Participants walk in and each receives a printed sheet of 25 or 50 tasks.
2. Free choice, all session.
Each person decides which tasks to do, in what order, and for how long: solo, in pairs, or with strangers. Nobody checks whether tasks are done "correctly".
3. The room takes over.
Within minutes the room is working. Within the hour, people who have never spoken are building things together.
Full room working at a Shubidubi session
Cross-table collaboration
Worked task sheets after Shubidubi
What it reliably produces
Strangers collaborate
The task set gives people cover to work with anyone. "The tasks asks for it" is the reason
Rooms self-organise
Groups form and dissolve, participants invent tasks for the whole room.
Rank suspends
Everyone does the same tasks side by side.
It leaves a record
Every task leaves a visible action or a physical artefact, so the session documents itself.
Where it fits
The session fills a fixed slot of 1 to 3.5 hours and runs as the centrepiece or as a layer inside an existing programme.
Away-days and team days
Inductions
Member events
Socials
Conferences
Shubidubi runs at
four scales.
A single session
One slot inside an occasion that already exists.
A series
Three or four sessions with the same group over a term or a quarter. Each task set is composed from what the previous room did; the programme sees what happened and adjusts.
A programme
A staged run built with the commissioning organisation: a core group first, then widening overlap with other groups, then a closing session for the whole organisation.
A demo
Twenty minutes and six tasks, for teams and agencies deciding whether to book. The fastest way to understand the format is to do it.
Practical
Group size: 12 - 50
(larger rooms on request)Duration: 1 - 3.5 hours
Facilitation: one for every 50 participants
Setting: any room with tables
Materials (supplied per session):
Printed sheets, paper and pens, other simple materials for makingLocation: London-based. available worldwide
Position on outcomes
Shubidubi does not promise outcomes, does not measure inner transformation, and does not evaluate individuals.
The format works because participants act without justification, and a promised effect would reintroduce exactly the pressure the mechanism removes.
Every claim is behavioural, observable, and checkable against previous sessions.
How participants
see Shubidubi
Who's behind it
Shubidubi is authored by Alejandro Ramos Saavedra, Senior Lecturer at Kingston School of Art (MA Royal College of Art, MSc Imperial College London).
Behind the printed sheet sits a system based on design operations.
