Introduction to Innovative Design Thinking

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Introduction to Innovative Design Thinking

• CDI

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Lecture 7

• Taos Thinking
• The use of nothingness
• Application of Tao in Education
• To Design a project
• Cultural barriers

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Taos thinking in Education

• What is Tao (?)?
• 2. What is NothinglessWu(?)?
• 3. Application of Tao in Education

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WHY
Perception
WHAT
Concept
HOW
Idea
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Taos thinking in Education

• Concept formation

Knowledge
Concept
Experience
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Taos thinking in Education

• Knowledge formation

Personal Knowledge
Codified Knowledge
Tacit Knowledge
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Taos thinking in Education
New Perception
Perception
Concept
Idea
Heritage
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Taos thinking in Education
New Perception
Proficiency of Languages
Perception
Concept
Idea
Heritage
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Taos thinking in Education
Lo-gy (??) has many off springs
Archaeo-logy Bio-logy Crimino-logy Dermato-logy Ec
o-logy
Geo-logy Horo-logy Ideo-logy Limno-logy Metro-logy

Numero-logy Onto-logy Psycho-logy Socio-logy Techn
o-logy
Ultra-logy Zymo-logy Archeo-logy Methodo-logy Term
ino-logy

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Use of Nothingness
You know everything, you are nothing! You know
nothing, you are everything!
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Use of Nothingness
Imagine A white board is useful when it is
empty. Once it was filled with scribbling, it is
useless.
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Use of Nothingness
One can eat because one is hungry. One can learn
because one is empty!
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Use of Nothingness
One can be creative because one knows nothing
about what s/he is doing. And once you dont
know, there you have room to grow.
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Use of Nothingness
To be creative.. To be empty!
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Use of Nothingness
As an educator, we are trained to feed students
and make them full.
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Use of Nothingness
As a creative educator, we are trying to feed
them with knowledge and then empty them out.
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Use of Nothingness
To empty your students, empty yourself first. The
greatest enemy in creativity is always you
yourself!!!!
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Use of Nothingness
Enjoy knowing nothing, then you will know
everything out of nothing and then empty out and
being nothingness again.
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References

• ???, ?????????, ???? 1998

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Design a project

• To design a design project, there are some points
  we teachers need to pay attention into.

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Design a project

• We have to find a theme suitable for students.
  How can we find this?
• Ask the student.
• Treat yourself as a student.

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Design a project

• We have to find the NEED suitable for design
  activity.
• But, what is the Need?

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Design a project

• The NEED can be at different levels
• To student
• To teacher
• To school

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Design a project

• To parents
• To Education Department
• To society
• To China
• To mankind

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Design a project

• To me, the NEED is to stimulate students
  independent and innovative thinking, to develop
  confident and to self-transcend.

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Design a project

• There is a well known problem in Design education
  issued by ED????(Not sure)
• The ill-defined design problem.

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Design a project

• To me, there is NO ill-defined design problem,
  there is only ill-conceptual and lazy thinker.

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Design a project

• A design project should be full of fun,
  challenges, interesting and worth learning. If
  most of the students do not like the project, it
  is a poor project.
• Fun is the key in Creativity.

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Design a project

• The theme should be closely related to students
  knowledge, experience and / or familiar
  environment. It may be useful sometimes for
  students to decide their themes.

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Design a project

• The theme should have room for interpretation. If
  the design project falls into the subordinate
  area, teacher must help students to find the way
  out.

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Design a project

• The project brief should clearly describe the
  situation of the problem, the criteria, resources
  available, content / context to be covered,
  submission and DEADLINE.

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Design a project

• Plan carefully the content you are going to
  conduct within the lessons, and examine the
  feasible possibilities. If you know the outcome
  already, it is not a good project.

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Design a project

• Encourage students to challenge the theme, to
  interpret it, to analyze it, question it and even
  propose anti-theme for the project.

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Design a project

• Personal tutorial is very useful for teacher to
  read students mind. This can arouse their
  creativity because you teacher feels interesting
  and do care about how they think.

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Design a project

• Encourage students to make full use of their
  knowledge not only within the design domain but
  everything they know for the project.

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Design a project

• Exhibit or record down students works and show
  your appreciation for their affords. Give full
  marks if they deserved, and write comments on
  their works.

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Design a project

• Teaching students to be creativity means killing
  teachers time and patient. The more you
  contribute, the more you yourself to be proud of.
  You can master creativity!

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Culture

• What is Culture?
• Culture is whats shared by a large group and
  transmitted across generations ideas,
  languages, beliefs, attitudes, behaviors and
  traditions.

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Culture

• It is also a collective value system for a nation
  to think, analyze, criticize and agree with
  specific issues. Culture is a living social
  organism, which transcend through time.

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Culture

• Different types of Culture
• High Culture
• Popular Culture
• Sub Culture

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Culture

• We have to know the cultural background of our
  situation and the participants under any creative
  works. Why?

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Culture

• So that you know their history, need, their value
  judgments, beliefs, and most important, you know
  how they think and interpret.

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Culture

• Citizens within a specific culture can
  communicate effectively not only because they
  speak the same languages, but also think and
  interpret things in similar attitudes under the
  same value system.

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Culture

• Under the same culture, citizens will understand
  the specific signs and symbols using in their
  premises, which are really difficult for the
  outsider to decipher.

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Culture

• The signs and symbols must echo to the consumers
  daily lives in order to activate the consumption
  desire. However, most consuming intention is
  unconscious and super-ego.

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Culture

• Signification can only happened under the
  umbrella of the same culture, and the signifier
  becomes the idealist practice of ones wish.

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Culture

• Nowadays, consumption is cohere with culture.
  Despite the fact that Globalism becomes one of
  the horrible threat of Nationalism, creativity
  still stick to the end users.

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Culture

• Knowing you (students parents and significant
  others) and knowing me (teacher) is a Chinese
  slang, which is true whenever you wanted to
  initiate any new and creative move within
  educational domain.

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References

• Consumption, Robert Bocock, 1993
• Social Psychology, David G. Myers, 1999, 6th
  Edition

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