Creativity Tools Flashcards
Educating to be creative
Offer people tools for innovation and to get them ready for change.
Creativity is limited by
Linear or traditional thinking
Traditional or linear thinking makes us…
Believe every action has an specific answer: logical, organized, based on experience
Lateral thinking allow us…
Make new interpretations because of the way they are organized in the brain.
Linear thinking
Gives the world the possibility to change
Lateral thinking
It actually changes
Linear thinking
- Organizes the information in order
- Analyzes the thoughts in a sequential and logical way
- Tends to prove using the scientific method. based on verification.
Lateral thinking
- Opens new ways of storing information in the brain
- Walk paths that aren’t obvious.
- The train of thought doesn’t follow a sequence.
Basic functions of lateral thinking
Stimulate, counteract rigidity, liberate, explore
Paradigms
Block, wish to solve problems creatively since they are almost automatic responses that are based on previous info.
Basic rules
- Do not perjudge
- Use your information
- Have a possitive attitude
- Keep the goals in mind
- Look for innovation..
Creativity
Ideal characteristic in every environment
Critic+creative thinking=
Problem solution, improvement of processes and products, and increases productivity among people
Solution creative and value
Unique form in which we address a problem and how use the information, technology, competencies
8 elements of Richard Paul
Purpose, use, point of view, context, information, concepts, inferences, implications
Edward de Bono
When solving a problem we usually analyze what is, in a design process we analyze what could be based on the perceptions that play an essential role in creative thinking
Creativity is evaluated
Qualitatively according to different approaches
Elements to analyze…
inspiration, originality, imagination, problem solving, risk tasking, justification, etc.
Eisner
Creativity must work as a form of rebellion
Torrance
Evaluating creativity must be based on originality
Besemer and Treffinger
Consider Eisner and Torrance and add novelty, solution, synthesis
Technique proposed by Foster
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Two ways to use lateral thinking
Specific and general
Specific one
Refers to a number of systematic techniques that are used to change the concept and perceptions in order to create new ones
General one
Exploration of multiple possibilities and approaches instead of accepting one single point of view
Methods for thinking and extracting concepts
Six hats, de Bono, proposes to change hats inside the creative process
Concepts or descriptions for an object
Purpose, mechanism, value
Mental model
Our mind judges each instruction and adds others by force of habit or based on previous experience
Visual methods
Make elements more tangible
More Graphic elements=
More understanding of our problematic and possible solutions
- Rules of visual thinking
- The one who describes the problematic better in a visual way has more real opportunities to solve it
- Rules of visual thinking
- We must be able to divide it up in smaller pieces: who/what?, how much?, when?,…
- Rules of visual thinking
- The more human your graphic representation, the more human the solution you get
Clasp knife and napkin techniques: Step 1
Observation, imagination, action
Clasp knife and napkin techniques: Step 2
Seeing, looking, imagining, showing
Clasp knife and napkin techniques: Step 3
Solution to problem: simple/elaborate, quality/quantity, vision/execution, individual/comparison, delta/status quo
Clasp knife and napkin techniques: Step 4
Second rule in the visual thinking: who, how much, when, where, why
