Considerations to find creative designs & solutions

CONSIDERATIONS TO FIND

CREATIVE DESIGNS & SOLUTIONS

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CREATIVE DESIGNS &

SOLUTIONS



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CONCEPTUALIZATION

- What about environment ?

- Knowledge of the situation

- …

ENVIRONMENT: Space, Time,

Temporary circumstances, ...SYSTEM (Problem)

- What is the problem?

- How is defined?

- What are the results I hope

- …

ANALYSIS- What limits are there?

- Are there alternatives?

- Advantages and disadvantages of

each alternative.

- Learn more

- Analysis particularized

- …

• Inquire

• Search and Obtain

Information

DECISION

Which alternative we choose, What is the solution

- Design

- Test and Evaluation- How we implement the solution

- Goodness of the solution adopted

PLANNING

THE PERCEPTION

• How I see the

situation

• What are my

sensors and their

limitations ?

• How does my

experience in the

subject

CRITICAL

THINKING

CREATIVE

TECHNIQUES

- Logical Thinking

- Lateral Thinking

- other

INNOVATION

- What is?

- How it works

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ENGINEERING METHOD to PROBLEM SOLVING & DESIGN



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DATA INFORMATION KNOWLEDGE

• Data: Representative sample of an element

of reality (fact, name, event ...)

• Information: Dataset properly treated

(processed), with a meaning.

• Knowledge (Cognizance): A set of

information assimilated with competition.Ability to make correct decisions. Identification of cause-

effect relationships. Ability to forecast. ...

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The treatment of

the data provides

information, and

information

assimilated with

competence and

stored on an organic support (say brain)

is transformed into knowledge

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DATA INFORMATIONTREATMENT

(PROCESSING)

INFORMATION

KNOWLEDGE

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Let's focus now in

the process of

seeking and

obtaining

information to

solve our problem

or get

knowledge



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DATAData is a

collection of

facts, such as

values or

measurements.

It can be

numbers,

words,

measurements,

observations or

even just

descriptions of

things.

Qualitative data is a

descriptive observation (it

describes something)

- He is black

- He is powerful

- He is elegant

Quantitative

data,

is numerical

observation

(numbers).

Continuousdegrees

time

Discrete

degrees

time8

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DATA INFORMATIONTREATMENT

(PROCESSING)

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The process data can be:

• Big Data Analitycs

• Map and reduce

• Clustering, classification

• To find data structure

• To find correlations

• To obtain statistical

parameters (mean,

standard deviation,

moments, percentiles, etc.)

• …

From the same data, different processes

generate different information !!

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DATA

INFORMATION 1

PROCESSOR 1

PROCESSOR 2

INFORMATION 2

PROCESSOR n

INFORMATION n



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DATA

PROCESSOR A

PROCESSOR B

Consider this example

crystal table trypod

glass with drinking straw



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to show now as we transform

information into knowledge, answer

the next slide question

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?

how did you see the glass,

from below or from above ?

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glass with drinking straw bottom view

or

glass with drinking straw top view



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Surely you saw the glass from above,

since it is the most common way in

which we always see a glass.

But you will recognize that the vision of

the glass with drinking straw from

below was also possible

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?

the same goes us with the

crystal table tripod

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crystal table tripod bottom view

or

crystal table tripod top view



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This is the great drama:

When we transform information into knowledge,

we despise, or neglect, a lot of information, in the

previous examples above 50%

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Can you

see the

circles

which are

in this

image ?



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I show

you one,

now you

can see

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When in the creative process of designing or problem

solving, we don't found a satisfactory or original solution,

we must go back and re-inspect the information trying to

discover what we don't perceive at first sight.

Sometimes this process can lead us to even question the

process of obtaining information and we must try to

access to the raw data, the only original source that

allows us the metric of events.

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THIS IS TRUE

THIS IS TRUE THIS IS TRUE



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INFORMATION

Information must be:

- Opportune

- Reliable

- Accurate

- Precise

- Integer

- Consistent

- and Economic

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SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION:

• The same data with different treatments provide different

information, all may be true.

• In the process of transforming information into knowledge, is

almost always that we neglect or lose a lot of information.

• Then, when we are seeking a CREATIVE solution, an excellent

solution, we must deeply study the information trying to assimilate

it completely, without loss.

• Sometimes, in order to build a CREATIVE solution or design, you

should have to find other information, even with the same data,

by processing the same data it in another way to get the

information you need.

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Thank you very much for your attention!!!!

Antoni Elias Fusté

Creativity Teacher in

BarcelonaTech-UPC

Engineering

Considerations to find creative designs & solutions