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Cultivating Creativity:Seven Characteristics of Creative Thinking
1. Receptivity: Creative people are open to new ideas and welcome new experiences
Cultivating Creativity:Seven Characteristics of Creative Thinking
2. Curiosity: A good designer brings and insatiable curiosity to each project
Cultivating Creativity:Seven Characteristics of Creative Thinking
3. Wide Range of Interests: With a broad knowledge base, a creative person can make a wider range of connections
Cultivating Creativity:Seven Characteristics of Creative Thinking
4. Attentiveness: Realizing that every experience is valuable, creative people pay attention to seemingly minor details
Cultivating Creativity:Seven Characteristics of Creative Thinking
5. Connection Seeking: Seeing the similarity among seemingly disparate parts has often sparked a creative breakthrough
-Rosetta stone
Cultivating Creativity:Seven Characteristics of Creative Thinking
6. Conviction: Creative people value existing knowledge
Cultivating Creativity:Seven Characteristics of Creative Thinking
7. Complexity: To be fully effective, a creative person needs to combine the rational with the intuitive
Creative people often combine:
• Physical energy with a respect for rest• Savvy with innocence• Responsibility with playfulness• Risk taking with safe keeping• Extroversion with introversion• Passion with objectivity• Disregard for time with attention to details• Modesty and Pride
• Goals you set are goals you get. Establishing priorities and setting appropriate goals will help you achieve your potential. Good goals are challenging but attainable, compatible, self-directed, clearly defined, and temporary. Deadlines encourage completion of complex projects
• Collaborative work can help us expand our ideas, explore new fields, and pursue projects that are too complex or time consuming to do alone
Problem Seeking: The Design Process
• 1. What is needed?
• 2. What existing designs are similar to the design we need?
• 3. What is the difference between the existing designs and the new design?
• 4. How can we transform, combine, or expand these designs?
The Fine Art Process
• Contemporary sculptors, filmmakers, painters, and other fine artists generally invent their own aesthetic problems
Characteristics of a Good Problem
• Significant
• Socially Responsible
• Comprehensible
• Open to Experimentation
• Ambitious yet achievable
• Authentic
Convergent and Divergent Thinking
• Convergent thinking involves the pursuit of a predetermined goal, usually in a linear progression and using a highly focused problem solving technique:– Define the Problem– Do Research– Determine your objective– Devise a strategy– Evaluate the results
Convergent and Divergent Thinking
• In divergent thinking, the means determines the end. The process is more open-ended; specific results are hard to predict. Divergent thinking is a great way to generate completely new ideas:– The problem definition is elusive or evolving– A rational solution is not required– A methodical approach is unnecessary– Deadlines are flexible
Brainstorming
• Brainstorming plays an important role in both convergent and divergent thinking. It is a great way to expand ideas, see connections, and explore implications:
-Make a list-Use a Thesaurus-Explore Connections-Keep a Journal
Model making
• A maquette is a well developed three-dimensional sketch
• A model is a technical experiment or a small-scale version of a larger design
• A prototype is a well developed model, as with the fully functional prototype cars developed by automobile companies
Variations on a Theme
• Professional artists rarely do just one painting or sculpture of a given idea--most do many variations before moving to a new subject
Katsushika Hokusai, Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji: Under the
Mannen Bridge at Fukagawa, 1830 (Edo period)
Katsushika Hokusai, Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji: Near
Umezawa in Sagami Province, 1830 (Edo period)
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