Byrån för Glömda Saker

The bureau of Forgotten Things

Using storytelling and imagination as a way to connect with other (non-human) perspectives. The 3rd mission (workshop) at Lilla Änggården (3 of 4).

In February, the Byrå had our third workshop at Lilla Änggården. Before the workshop, children had received a note describing a mystery about a hidden room at Lilla Änggården whose key has gone missing. The children were very interested in this story, and the search for the lost key became our mission for this day. 

At the beginning of the workshop, children also chose their “specializations” as agents of the Byrå. (click here to read more about specialization badges). One of the children chose to be a Tree Speaker and Friend to Animals. In order to find the key, the agent created a tree speaking device so that we could ask the trees if they had seen the missing key. The tree-speaking device was created from an old copper funnel (part of the mission included repurposing loose salvaged parts to become imaginative tools). Unfortunately the tree-speaking device was left in the forest and has mysteriously gone missing.

Photographs from the third mission at Lilla Änggården

Agent 1: “Are you sure that trees understand
human language?”

Agent 2: “Yep.”

[to tree] “Do you know where the key is?” ...

[to agent] “No, it doesn’t know anything.”