WEEK 12: APPLICATION OF THINKING II

Creativity:

ü  Involves the production of novel and useful products according to Mumford

Creative thinking:

ü  Thinking through the capability to think in a different way applied to the finding of

                                                                                  i.            Techniques and devices

                                                                                ii.            New artistic expression

                                                                               iii.            New solutions to problem

Aspects of creativity:

ü  Process; thought mechanism for creative thinking

ü  Product; novel created that meets the need

ü  Place; having a intellectual habits

ü  Person; the circumstances which creativity flourish

Six thinking hats:

ü  Founder; Edward De Bono

Six thinking hats styles:

ü  White:

·         Conveys information only and it’s not make any judgement

ü  Red:

·         It represents anger

ü  Black:

·         Gloomy and negative

·         Prevents mistake by urging cautions

ü  Yellow:

·         Based on logical constructive thoughts; it has optimism looking for potential benefits.

ü  Green:

·         Symbol of vegetation

·         Generating new ideas

ü  Blue:

·         The sky; bird’s eye view to the thinking process and can look at the higher, wider to see the problem pattern.

Force fitting technique:

ü  It is a method that can be use to force the mind to make creative leaps

ü  If we have abundance of ideas which are load dumping, we use force fitting technique.

Type of force fitting techniques:

Free association:

ü  Write on the black board a symbol such as a number or a picture that may relate to the problem.

ü  Ask the group to think something associated with the symbol.

ü  Jot down what they say

ü  Some responses may not have anything to do with the problem

ü  Continue this process until the ideas related to the problem begin to emerge

ü  The idea becomes part of the brainstorms solutions and to be short listed for our reference

ü  Lastly, resume the previous approach to brainstorm

Force – fitting game:

ü  Create two teams and provide them problem definition statement

ü  Team A tells the idea which is not completely related to the problem

ü  Team B gives an idea into a good practical solution for the original problem

ü  If team B succeed, they will get the point. If not, the team A will get the point.

Bionics:

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ü  Is catered for starting creative thinking by using analogy

ü  Look for relationships between problem a and solution in nature that could be similar to the problem that you are facing in the manmade world