CCT204H5 Lecture Notes - The Act Of Creation, Integrative Thinking, Communication Problems
12 Mar 2014
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The ability to use the imagination to develop new and original ideas. This is two mutually incompatible contexts or bisociation of matrices. This is bringing two incompatible contexts -> similar to integrative thinking. Integrative thinking is two or more opposing ideas transformed into a creative resolution. Like the snovel, this is a shovel plus a wheel barrel. Result is an easier way to shovel snow. Innovation is a newly invented or new way of doing things. Designers are to turn a negative into a positive. Design should be backed by reason, research and feasibility. Everyone has a role as designer in an organization. There are four kinds of design, according to jorge frascara: design to support life, design to facilitate life, to improve life, inconsequential design. To support life: promote and ensure health and safety. Like industrial safety, traffic safety and health education. To facilitate life: task oriented design, helps us do things better, faster and more easily, more efficiently.
