Introduction to Innovative Design Thinking

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Introduction to Innovative Design Thinking

• CDI

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Lecture 3

• Linguistic Analysis
• Mind Map
• Concept Map
• The application of concept map in design

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Power of Words

• We can arouse creativity by making use the power
  of words in two ways
• Analyzation and
• Free association.

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Linguistic Analysis

• Linguistic analysis is a contemporary philosophy
  introduced by Wittgenstein.

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Linguistic Analysis

• Ancient Philosophy
• What is X?
• Contemporary Philosophy
• Is X within the criteria of Hunans knowledge?

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Linguistic Analysis

• Analytical Philosophy
• Under the proposition, what does the X means?

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Linguistic Analysis

• Definition
• To elucidate the meaning of the keywords of a
  proposition, clearly state the argument and the
  criteria, which enable us to analysis the
  proposition.

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Linguistic Analysis

• Traps in languages
• Meaning incomplete??
• Ambiguous expression??
• Vague??

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Linguistic Analysis

• Traps in languages
• Coloured expression ?
• Reification ??
• Idiosyncratic sense ??

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Linguistic Analysis

• 1. Meaning incomplete ??
• Sentence with correct grammatical structure but
  with incomplete or unknown statement.

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Linguistic Analysis

• Meaning incomplete
• e.g. Democracy is the best political system.
• Another example
• I am sorry about the plane crash.

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Linguistic Analysis

• 2. Ambiguous expression ??
• When words have more than two or more meanings,
  it will cause mal-interpretation and is known as
  ambiguous expression.

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Linguistic Analysis

• 2. Ambiguous expression
• e.g. ??????
• Wow ---? , ?? ! ? ? ?? !
• Another examples
• You are killing me.

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Linguistic Analysis

• 3. Vague ??
• When a word apply without a definite and precise
  criteria, the meaning of the word is hard to
  understand.

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Linguistic Analysis

• 3. Vague
• e.g. You are beautiful.
• Another example
• By building 85,000 new apartment annually, we can
  stabilize the property market and provide enough
  housing for citizens.

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Linguistic Analysis

• 4. Coloured expression
• The words used to substitutes the
  unmentionables wordings according to ethical,
  moral or social constraints, which are mostly
  emotional allegory.

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Linguistic Analysis

• 4. Coloured expression
• e.g.
• I am creative.
• You are caprice.
• He is crazy.
• They are insane.

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Linguistic Analysis

• 5. Reification ??
• To imply a non-figurative definition into a
  figurative definition within a proposition is
  known as Reification.

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Linguistic Analysis

• 5. Reification
• e.g. Knowledge is a key to success.
• Another example
• We can achieve creativity through design
  education.

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Linguistic Analysis

• 6. Idiosyncratic sense ??
• It means the word has been used in situation
  detached from its original meaning. Sometimes,
  the statement is true, but useless and hard to
  understand.

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Linguistic Analysis

• 6. Idiosyncratic sense
• e.g. Buddhist All is one, and one is all.

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Linguistic Analysis

• Linguistic analysis relies very much on Logical
  Empiricism. There are two methods helping us to
  distinguish words traps
• Analytical-synthetic distinction.
• Meaning distinction.

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Linguistic Analysis

• Analytical distinction count on the peeling off
  the meaning of a word by looking into the
  definition. It depends on the knowledge base of
  the reader, and, a good dictionary.

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Linguistic Analysis

• Meaning distinction have three areas
• Cognitive meaning.
• Non-cognitive meaning.
• Cognitive meaningless.

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Linguistic Analysis

• Do you really know the meaning of a word?
• Danger?
• Power?
• Look up the meaning of the words in a dictionary.

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Linguistic Analysis

• Do not stop until you can trace back to the
  original word. It will happens to be a circle
  game.

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Linguistic Analysis

• Demonstration
• Any word you would like me to try?

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Mind Mapping

• Mind Mapping is a thinking method introduced by
  Tony Buzan.

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Mind Mapping

• Mind mapping is a new note-taking technique. This
  technique could be used in a number of situations.

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Mind Mapping

• For planning
• For problem solving
• Making summaries
• Formulating structure
• Brain storming and idea generating
• Note taking

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Mind Mapping

• Keywords
• The parts of speech all play their specific roles
  in language. Keywords are words you pick out of a
  text and store in your memory. They help you to
  recall the text when you need it

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Mind Mapping
A mind map for an apple.
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Mind Mapping
Eve
Symbol
Garden
Healthy
Juice
Good
Away doctor
Wine
Vitamins
Green
Sweet
Computer
The Beatles
Pie
Autumn
Food
Pesticides
Tree
Red
New York
Import
Newtons Law
Export
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Mind Mapping

• Mind mapping technique can helps you to develop
  memory and learning skills. It equip you unique
  pictures or words to stimulate your imagination
  and creative thinking.

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Mind Mapping

• The principle is
• First abundance then a choice.

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Mind Mapping

• Creativity is really the same thing. By using
  many possibilities you can later make a choice of
  the most suitable in order to solve a certain
  problem or create a new idea.

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Mind Mapping
FEW SOLUTIONS
ANALTICAL THINKING - exclusion of alternative
solutions
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Mind Mapping
A LARGE NUMBER OF ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS
CREATIVE THINKING -creating many ideas
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Mind Mapping
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Mind Mapping

• Demonstration
• Make a mind map for

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Mind Mapping

• Activity
• Make a mind map for

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Mind Mapping

• A computer software for presenting mind map.

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Concept Map

• Mind mapping is very useful in deciphering an
  idea, diversify and expand it to increase the
  capabilities in creating new meanings, or to
  represent the idea at different levels.

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Concept Map

• However, mind mapping is sometimes chaotic and
  loosely organized, which is difficult to build up
  a hierarchical structure for the idea.

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Concept Map

• Concept map is a thinking method helping one to
  build up his/her concept created by the mind map,
  and construct a map of structured possibilities.

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Concept Map

• The principle
• The map must start from keyword at the conceptual
  level. It can be a self-sustained argument, or
  the finding from a mind map.

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Concept Map

• Points to note when making a concept map
• The concept must be clearly stated.
• Show all the possibilities in the concept.

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Concept Map

• Illustrate the flow of ideas/concept and the
  inter-relationship.
• Identify all the optional and conditional phases.
• No irrational dead ends.

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Concept Map

• Allows intersection with another concept map.
• Can be revised at any design stage.
• It will not end before it reaches a proposed
  solution.

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Concept Map

• Demonstration
• Any concept????

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Concept Map

• Activity
• Make a concept map for..

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Concept Map

• Concept map technique is very useful in design
  education especially for youngsters aged around
  12 13. Here are two examples in the
  implementation of concept map in F.2 DT projects
  in my school.

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Concept Map

• Assignment
• Design a project for F.2 students in your school
  for the implementation of the concept map
  thinking method.

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References

• Mind Mapping Memory, Ingemar Svantesson
• Wittgenstein, 1953, Philosophical
  Investigations, Blackwell.
• Tien-ming Lee, 1981, Logico-Linguistic
  Analysis Methods of Thinking (1)

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