Introduction to Innovative Design Thinking

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Introduction to Innovative Design Thinking

• CDI

MING
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Introduction

• Who am I ???

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Introduction

• I am Choy Ngai Ming
• ???
• Email choy681_at_netvigator.com

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Introduction

• MA in Design, HKPU
• BA (Hons), HKPU
• Advance Course of Teachers Education, HKIEd
• Higher Cert. In 3-D Design, HKPU
• Cert. In Foundation Design, HKPU
• Teachers Certificate, HKIEd

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Course Introduction

• Lecture 1
• Course introduction
• On creativity
• Logic Deduction Induction

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Course Introduction

• Lecture 2
• Design Philosophy
• Design Methodology
• On Design Education
• Power of words

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Course Introduction

• Lecture 3
• Linguistic analysis
• Mind mapping
• Concept Mapping
• The application of concept map in design

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Course Introduction

• Lecture 4
• Concept of Fuzzy Logic
• Lateral Thinking
• Six Thinking Hats
• Problem Identification

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Course Introduction

• Lecture 5
• Brain Storming
• The power of group project
• Questioning
• Importance of presentation

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Course Introduction

• Lecture 6
• Interpretation
• Semiotics
• Imagery versus Languages
• Free association

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Course Introduction

• Lecture 7
• 1. To Design a design project
• 2. On school policy
• 3. Cultural barriers
• 4. Taos Thinking
• 5. Application of Tao in Design

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Course Introduction

• Lecture 8
• High Technology Vs Creativity
• The use of nothingness
• Building up creativity in your school
• Arouse creativity amount students
• Question and Answer

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On Creativity

• What is Creativity ?
• Creativity is

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On Creativity

• Creativity people are
• Those who are smart.
• Those who experience the world in originality and
  new way.
• Those who change our perception and culture.

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On Creativity

• How brain thinks?
• Unfortunately, nobody knows up till now. All we
  know is that the capability in thinking are
  different amount human beings, and it can be
  trained through education.

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On Creativity

• Is there any Creativity Notion?
• To me up till now, no. But certainly, there are
  ways helping one to develop his/her creativity
  through training.

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On Creativity

• How to measure creativity?

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On Creativity

• New ????
• Changes ????
• Impressive ????

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On Creativity

• Creativity in short, is considered as a
  psychological activities of an individual to
  transcend ideas, concepts and form his/her unique
  thinking.

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Concept

• What is concept ?
• Idea underlying something
• General notion

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Concept of Knowledge
WHY
Perception
WHAT
Concept
HOW
Idea
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Concept formation

• Concept formation

Knowledge
Concept
Experience
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Knowledge formation

• Knowledge formation

Personal Knowledge
Codified Knowledge
Tacit Knowledge
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Concept of Creativity

• Basic elements in Creativity

Field
YOU
Domain
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Conditions for Being Creative

• Domain
• Knowledge of an individual which enable him/her
  to have concise and mature thinking.

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Conditions for Being Creative

• Field
• Knowledge of individuals which constitute a
  criteria to judge achievement of the contribution
  of individuals to specific area.

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Conditions for Being Creative

• Personality
• Character and unique thinking of an individual
  which enable him/her to be creativity and
  innovative.

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Conditions for Being Creative

• What are the conditions for being creative???????

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Conditions for Being Creative

• Educated
• Strong Personality
• Naughty
• Bold
• Optimistic

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Conditions for Being Creative

• Open minded
• Curiosity
• Challenging
• Humor
• Good memory

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Conditions for Being Creative

• Smart
• Sensible environment
• Good timing
• Technological back-up
• Cultural identity .

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Are you Creative?

• Test it out, NOW !!!

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Are you Creative?

• You are given a piece of A4 paper. By making use
  of the paper, develop a game for your classmate.

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References

• Creativity, Mihaly Csikentmihalyi,
• ????, ????

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On Logic

• What is Logic ?
• Logic is a notion to find out true or false
  against a proposition.

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On Logic

• Logic is
• A thinking method introduced by three great
  philosophers Plato, Socratics and Aristotle.

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On Logic

• Logic is
• It is a linear step by step thinking process,
  starting from a problem vertically down to the
  solution.

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On Logic

• Why do we need Logic?

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On Logic

• Logic is
• A tool for us to communicate and to execute ideas
  and policy.

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On Logic

• Logic is
• A bridge between people to understand each
  other within our daily life.

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On Logic

• Logic is important because
• It is the ruler for people to measure the
  possibility / probability of a plan or a policy.
• We are educated by Logic.

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On Logic

• Logic is important because
• It is quite easy to handle, and the result is
  obvious and objective.
• It is a tool for executing plan and scheme.

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On Logic

• Logic is important because
• It is a criteria for us to measure others
  behaviour and their abilities.
• It is a tool for government to control her
  citizens.

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On Logic

• Logic is important because
• It is an unique and concrete notion, which can be
  proved by mathematical concepts.
• It is widely used nowadays and seldom being
  questioned.

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On Logic

• Fallacies ??
• What is fallacies?
• 1. If the one or more statement is not true in a
  proposition, we cannot have a definite conclusion.

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On Logic

• What is fallacies?
• 2. If the hypothesis does not cover the
  conclusion or the proposition, the argument
  cannot be self sustained.

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On Logic

• Different kinds of fallacies
• Fallacies of Relevance (?)?????
• Argument from Ignorance ???????
• Appeal to Inappropriate Authority ??????????

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On Logic

• Fallacies of Relevance
• 3. Complex Question ????
• 4. Argument ad Hominem ???????
• a. Abusive ????
• b. Circumstantial ?????

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On Logic

• Fallacies of Relevance
• 56 Accident ???? Accident Converse ?? ??
• 7. False cause ?????
• 8. Begging the Question ????

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On Logic

• Fallacies of Relevance

9. Argument ad Populum ????? 10. Argument ad
Misericodiam ??? ?? 11. Argument ad Baculum
????? 12. Ignoratio Elenchi ???????
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On Logic

• B. Fallacies of Ambiguity?????
• Equivocation ????
• Amphiboly ????
• Accent ????
• Composition ??
• Division ??

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On Logic

• Definition ??
• Stipulative Definition ?????
• Lexical Definition ???
• Precising Definition ???
• Theoretical Definition ???

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On Logic

• Definition
• Persuasive Definition ???
• Denotative Definition ????????
• Connotative Definitionn ???????

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On Logic

• Proposition ??
• Categorical proposition ?????? .
• Universal Negative proposition ??????

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On Logic

• Proposition ??
• Particular affirmative proposition ??????
• Particular negative proposition??????

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On Logic

• Numerical Master mind
• Ten figures from 1 to 0.
• Fill in the grids and try to find out the answer
  by logical thinking.

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On Logic

• Rules
• Elementary level 10 figures without any
  repeating number.
• Advance level 10 figures with repeating number.

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On Logic

• Rules
• Means correct number and precise position.
• Means correct number but incorrect position

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On Logic

• Example

Record
Game
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On Logic

• So, lets try now, and have fun. Time limited for
  the game is 20 minutes ?

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On Logic

• Limitation of Logic
• It is a linear approach, which does not cover
  other possibilities.
• There are many chances in making fallacies.

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On Logic

• Limitation of Logic
• 3. Sometimes, we cannot formulate the
  proposition.
• 4. The dialectic approach cannot provide
  alternative thinking pattern.

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On Logic

• Limitation of Logic
• 5. It is contradictive to the perception in
  creativity.
• 6. We can hardly measure domains and fields which
  cannot be lexical in context by logic.

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On Logic

• Deduction

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On Logic

• Induction

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On Logic

• So, what can we do????
• There are many other ways out, do not panic. I
  will expose all those theories and methods to you
  in the afternoon.

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Next Lecture

• Lecture 2
• Design philosophy
• Design methodology
• On Design Education
• Power of words

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References

• Introduction to Logic,
• Copi, I.M., 1968
• ????, ????

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Thank You

• Ming