Creative Thinking Skills DST30204/ARC30104

CTS Assignment 03 Synopsis: After working in some workshops facilitated by your tutors regarding mind-mapping and other exercises, you would have obtained and generated some ideas! There would have been some strategies, which you have used to provide the subject matter to work with. But would this be enough? Can we take this further? Can this be an original idea? How far can you go to innovate? Remember the ‘formula’: Imagination + creativity = innovation! Imagination: your mental abilities to brainstorm and present your ideas! Creativity: the ability to translate the imagination onto surface! Sketching and illustrating them. Innovation: modifying them further and bringing them to life! Synectics is the process of bringing all the process of modifications and hybridization together to form an original idea! However let’s use SCAMPER!

The Brief: Use SCAMPER technique to stretch the existing idea and create an original idea! This will involve combinations and the synectic process! Task: Select the best idea from your ideation mind-maps, workshops/exercises and subject this idea to seven processes of SCAMPER.

Substitute    -­‐  Idea  2  

Idea  01  

Combine    -­‐  Idea  3  

Adapt  -­‐  Idea  4  

Modify,  miniaturize,  magnify    -­‐  Idea  5  

Put  to  other  uses    -­‐  Idea  6  

Eliminate    -­‐  Idea  7  

Reverse  or  rearrange    -­‐  Idea  8  

Pick one of the SCAMPER ideas, which best fulfills your goal and objective! Use that final idea to create the final prototype! Bear in mind, that you might subject it to more modifications as you are constructing it! That is okay as along as you indicate this in your IDJ! Criteria (read and understand):

• This is primarily an individual assignment. Other arrangements are at the discretion of the respective lecturers. They MUST be consulted!

• All ideas MUST be illustrated will good finishing! In the IDJ

• Must have good quantity of ideation processes! • The prototype must be constructed well and

intelligently with excellent finishing quality! • Presentation of the prototype MUST be

accompanied with the visuals in your IDJ or with your IDJ. These are evidence, which supports your final work!

 Tips:

- Refer to the assessment rubric for guide in obtaining your best scores!

- Always remember to quantify your ideas! Therefore talking about your ideas will help!

- For extra and bonus scores, capture the construction of your final product using time-lapse (optional)

- Use any material - No limit to the size and type of the final outcome

as long as it is intelligently designed and constructed – take into consideration, transporting it, weather, fragility and etc

- Remember, this isn’t an art project! This is an ideation project! CTS is about ideas and innovation! So if you are from another discipline, and if you want to relate to an aspect of your discipline!

- Video tutorial is available at: https://youtu.be/sW_ChwWSCRQ

 This assignment is valued at 10% (20 point score obtainable from the assessment rubric)