Introduction to Innovative Design Thinking

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Introduction to Innovative Design Thinking

• CDI

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Lecture 8

• High Technology Vs Creativity
• Arouse creativity among students
• Summary and ending

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High-Tech vs Creativity

• High-Tech as a policy addressed by the SAR
  government, is now a must in the H.K. secondary
  school. But, what is High-Tech?
• But, why????????

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High-Tech vs Creativity

• What is High-Tech?
• Is High-Tech equal to computing technology?
• Why should we introduce High-Tech in Design
  domain?
• Is High-Tech equal to creativity?

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High-Tech vs Creativity

• Computer is a tool.
• Computer as a tool.
• Computer as an apparatus.
• Computer as a bench mark. Computer as creativity.
• Computer as power.
• Computer as a must.

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High-Tech vs Creativity

• What is the problem of High-Tech? High-Tech
  Abuse !
• Misunderstanding, Fears and worshipping.
• Religion and Belief.
• Time Compression

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High-Tech vs Creativity

1. Virtuality Nothing real.
2. Information anxiety.
3. Violent as fun.
4. High Tech as toy.
5. Anti-Trust.
6. Anti-intellectual.

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High-Tech vs Creativity

1. Standardization
2. High-Tech Maneuvers
3. Social destruction
4. Defuturization
5. Getting lost

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High-Tech vs Creativity

• High-Tech may be a very useful mean helping us to
  execute our ideas and making everything more
  effective but to me, it is the most unbreakable
  obstacle.

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High-Tech vs Creativity

• We teachers have to be very careful when
  introducing computing knowledge in domains
  related to Creativity. What creativity needs is a
  knowledgeable self and a thoughtful mind set, NOT
  the CPU, internet, CADCAM ..

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References

• High Tech - High Touch, John Naisbitt, 1999

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Arouse Creativity in school

• Role of a teacher
• 1. They know nothing when students are designing,
  and they know everything when students are in
  troubles.

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Arouse Creativity in school

• Role of a teacher
• 2. Be open minded and humorous, and able to
  accept crazy, non-sensible and stupid ideas.

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Arouse Creativity in school

• Role of a teacher
• 3. They allow and arrange students to see,
  feel, touch, sense, talk and interpret more among
  different disciplines.

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Arouse Creativity in school

• Role of a teacher
• 4. Conduct student-centred thinking activities.
• 5. Always NEW to all parties.
• 6. No definite answer.

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Arouse Creativity in school

• Role of a teacher
• 7. Treasure nonsense and failure.
• 8. Nothing is known, nothing is obvious.
• 9. ? ? ? ? ?

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Arouse Creativity in school

• Problems encountered
• Educational policy
• Discipline
• Over emphasize the outcome

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Arouse Creativity in school

• Students themselves
• Parents
• Teachers
• Resources
• Society

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Arouse Creativity in school

• If you are creativity, these problems are too
  simple for you. If you are not creativity enough,
  okay, please attend another course later, maybe
  not conducted by me.

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Summary and Ending

• Summary of this workshop
• Logic
• Design philosophy
• Design methodology
• Mind map Concept map

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Summary and Ending

1. Brain Storming
2. Linguistic analysis
3. Free association
4. Plus, Minus and Interest
5. Lateral thinking

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Summary and Ending

1. Six thinking hats
2. On interpretation
3. Semiology
4. Taos thinking
5. Fuzzy logic

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Summary and Ending

1. Questioning
2. High-Tech vs Creativity
3. Design a design project
4. Arouse creativity in school

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Summary and Ending

• There is no formula in Creativity. I am please to
  share with you what I think I know in Creativity.
  Please comments on my thinking, as harsh as
  possible.

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Summary and Ending

• To be creative, one should
• Be brave
• Be naïve
• Be simple
• Be humorous

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Summary and Ending

• 5. Be naught
• 6. Be knowledgeable
• 7. Be open minded
• 8. Be easy going
• 9. Be empty
• 10. Be yourself.

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Summary and Ending

• There are some disciplines related to creativity
  have not been mentioned in this workshop such as
  Consumption, Marketing, Design management,
  Culture etc., which needed to further study if
  you wanted to know thoroughly in Design and
  creativity domain.

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Thank You