Blog 1
Creativity
Learning Communities
CH 1 CPS
Lecture 3
NEWS
Creativity – Engine of Progress
“Creativity is best described as the intersection of conscious and unconscious cognitive processes, as well as emotions”
Billionaire List
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Last Week
- Design and Thinking Video
- Problem Solving
- Creative Thinking
- Critical Thinking
- Syllabus
- Learning Communities
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Today
- Creativity
- TED talk
- Janet Echelman
- Taking Imagination Seriously
- https://www.ted.com/talks/janet_echelman?language=en
- Ch 1 CPS
- Creative Thinking
- Critical Thinking
- Blog invite
- Sample Blog Reflection
Going on crazy
What is innovation? What is creativity? What is “original” design?
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Original Design
Generating something new Origination
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell
Scientist
Inventor
Engineer
Innovator
1st US Patent for ? in 1876
Never existed before .. Alexander Graham Bell. Ben Herdman? Dehusk wheat. Got a workshop with buddy in return. Art, poetry & music, mimicry. Mother Deaf, Forehead, Acoustics
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Creativity
Creativity Passion + Commitment + Willingness to dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGmymin7d0o
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos
Watched the movie wanted? Larry & Sergin 21 & 22 Back Rub .. Stanford server .. Googol (1 followed by 100 zeros) ’97; Wiki Jimmy Wales & Larry Sanger, 2001; facebook Zuckerberg, Feb 4th 2004; Twitter Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, Noah Glass 2006;
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innovation
Innovation is the process of creating something new that has significant value to an individual or group, an organization, an industry or a society – An innovation thus is a creation that has a significant value
Creativity?
“Springboard to
Innovation?”
What is creativity?
New + Valuable?
Learnable?
Stifled by system?
Thoughts?
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Food for Thought
- “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
~Albert Einstein
Learning
Communities
Discuss about
Problems in your field
Innovations
Get together as a group .. Briefly discuss problems and also crazy innovations in your field and beyond..
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Brainstorming
- Alex Osborne
- Group or Individual creativity technique
- Gather ideas spontaneously to address a problem
- Steps
- Focus on quantity
- Withhold criticism
- Welcome unusual ideas
- Combine & improve ideas
- Suggestions
- Facilitator
- Diverse group
Creativity
- Their is four errers in this sentence
- What’s happening?
- Same old, same old..
- Sudden Cessation of Stupidity – Dr. Edward Land
- Who are most creative?
- What happens at age 5?
- Blocks
- Routine in cuisine is a crime
- Break free, connect the unrelated, see patterns that nobody sees
- Not skilled enough
- Musician Kodachrome Film, Ball-point pen Sculptor, Parking meter Journalist
- Hard work important
- “A-ha” could kick in
What to do?
- Make curry & have fun
- Cultivate an appetite, gather, cut, mix, cook, spice, taste & digest
- Take home message
- Do not be a duck
- Be an eagle
- Example
- Swatch company
- Fashionable jewelry that tells time
Lie on your back and look at the idea on the ceiling .. Be creative!!
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Ch1: CPS
- “We cannot direct the winds, but we can set our sails to gather the winds that steer our course”
~authors
- What is CPS?
- All innovations [begin] as creative solutions, but not all creative solutions become innovations."
~Richard Fobes (CPS toolbox)
- “You have an unknown creativity within you”
Everyday Challenges
- I’d like to attract more customers
- How can I market my new invention?
- How can I say hello to that girl in my history class?
- How do we get people to attend meetings?
- How can we spend time together as a family?
- How can I create a new design?
- How could I get students excited about creativity?
Excited? Eager? Frustrated? Nervous?
New ideas easy? Challenging?
Watch exercise
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Think
- Only geniuses can come up with creative ideas?
- Gilbert..
- Everyone can be creative
- But are you willing to use it?
Benefits of CPS
- Help you to
- Recognize opportunities, challenges & concerns
- Examine data heart of the problem
- Alternative approaches
- Develop a problem statement
- Generate many, varied & unusual ideas
- Identify tools for choosing, analyzing & developing ideas
- Examine possible solutions Implementation
- Plan of action
- What are you going to do and how?
Biggest challenge noted .. documentation
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Gurus
- Edward Deming
- “There is no substitute for knowledge”
- Taichi Ohno
- “Having no problems is the biggest problem of all”
Just-in-time? TPS? Kaizen?
Creativity
5 + 5 + 5 + 5 =555?
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Creative Thinking
- Encountering gaps, paradoxes, opportunities, challenges or concerns
- Generate
- Many
- Varied
- Unusual
- Original
- Details to expand or enrich
- Divergent Process
- Single point (.) to
Possibilities
Reading articles .. Why? VW ad .. Kid asking why for everything ..
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Critical Thinking
- Examining possibilities carefully, fairly & constructively
- Focusing thoughts & actions by
- Organizing & analyzing possibilities
- Refining & developing promising possibilities
- Ranking or prioritizing options
- Choosing or deciding certain options
- Convergent thinking
Read a book lying down, friend read a book with head hanging & book on the floor
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C&C Thinking
- Generating & Focusing Harmony
Myths
I am not a creative person
Not rare
Anyone can come up with novel ideas
Creativity is too mysterious to be taught
Esoteric phenomenon or divine gift
Natural & observable
Creativity equals arts
I cannot sketch, or sing (wish I could)
Wherever & whenever Direct your thoughts
Creativity is madness
Bearings loose?
Normal
Esoteric – understood only by a small group of people, Talk about Geoffrey Pi, Driving License test, Wife’s journey to America
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Importance
- What’s happening?
- Easy to get comfortable
- Pass knowledge one generation to the next
- 1800 US Patent Office
- “Everything that would ever needed to be invented had already been made”
Exercise
- Think of FIVE things that did not exist when you were FIVE
- Group
- Share that info
Thoughts on..
- Pollution, landfills, plastic, petrol, competition & knowledge
- Designing for all?
- Adaptability, teamwork, creativity, imagination
- Essential for success & survival?
- Creativity
- Breaking free, expanding vision, doing tasks better, new opportunities & challenges, enhancing health & satisfaction, career growth, productivity, quality, happiness
Generating Options
- Defer judgment
- Brain storming, no –ve, no +ve
- Strive for quantity
- Quantity breeds quality
- “Freewheel” and accept all options
- Uniqueness & originality
- Easy to tame a wild one than to breathe excitement into a dull one
- Seek combinations
- Right, that reminds me of ..
- Piggyback on each other
“Show me the money” – Jerry Maguire
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- Practice affirmative judgment
- Analyze ideas constructively
- Screen, select & support choice
- Look for + & -, never say ‘never’, how might we?
- Be deliberate & explicit
- Using specific tools or strategies systematic
- Being clear, specific & honest about criterion for evaluation
- Consider novelty & appropriateness
- Is it new & is it useful (makes sense)?
- Stay on course
- Goal, vision, objective, scope, need, significance
- If you don’t know where you are going, you might end up in Vadakara
Focusing Options
Usability I talk about +ve first, then point out the -ve
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Tools needed for CPS
- Creativity?
- Use of imagination/ideas to come up with something novel
- Problem?
- A question proposed for solution
- What is a tool?
- Something that will help you achieve a task
- Strategy?
- A plan to achieve a goal
- Uncertainty
- Technique?
- A way of carrying out a particular task
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Force-fitting object (pen) & connection to (speaker); Attributes Size, style, finish, material; Scamper Substitute. Combine. Adapt. Modify. Put to another use. Eliminate. Reverse; Morphological Matrix Attributes; PCA ABCD matrix; Refer: http://seed-ut.org/index.php/example-tools
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Take away
- Inspiration from Janet Echelman TED talk
- Creative Thinking
- Generating Options
- Critical thinking
- Focusing Options
Thu
- CPS Tools
- CPS Activity 1