Creativity, Innovation and Design- Argumentative Essay
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CID_Week3_students.pptxCreativity, Innovation & Design
Week 3: Factors affecting creativity in individuals and teams
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The main focus in Week 3 tutorial activities is to:
allow students to experience and engage in idea generation techniques
understand how teams form and what factors contribute to team creativity
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The role of positive emotions in facilitating individual creativity
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Idea generation activities In your groups choose one of the following activities and complete it….
Challenging assumptions
How can you improve ice-cream?
Step 1: Write down 3-4 traditional ways of improving ice-cream (e.g., change look, colour, taste etc)
Step 2: Take each one and challenge them (e.g., does ice-cream need to look like this, taste like this?)
Step 3: Now come up with different ways of improving ice-cream that go beyond the assumptions we have about ice-cream
Combine and connect
Come up with new and useful products by combining and connecting these dissimilar pairs
A bottle and a plastic bag
A pen and a tree
A comb and a book
A shoe and an umbrella
Mind mapping
Using the technique of mind mapping generate ideas to answer the following question:
How might we redesign fast food restaurants to teach children about healthy eating?
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Discussion questions
Tuckman’s stages of team formation describes five stages that teams go through. What are these stages? Think about your own experience of working in a team. Did your team go through these five stages of team development? Discuss.
What is creative leadership? Why is creative leadership important for teams?
Watch the video ‘Teresa Amabile - Creativity and Motivation’. Do you agree with Teresa Amabile that creativity and innovation processes depend on the social environment that employees work in? Discuss.
Watch the video ‘How does one transform destructive conflict into constructive conflict’. What is meant by destructive conflict and how can it happen in teams? What are the consequences of destructive conflict? How can teams utilize conflict of ideas among team members to create creativity and innovation?
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Divergent thinking & Convergent thinking
Divergent thinking: The process of thinking that explores multiple possible solutions in order to generate creative ideas
Convergent thinking: The process of figuring out a concrete solution to any problem
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Brick activity re-visited
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This is the second part of the ‘Brick activity’. In the previous activity, students used only divergent thinking to come up with as many uses of a brick as possible. In this activity, they are asked to use both divergent and convergent thinking to solve a given problem using a brick.
Working in groups ask students to complete the given task. Their solution(s) must be both new and practical (i.e., implementable within an actual workplace).
Discussion questions: What did you learn from this task?
