Monday 5th October, 2015
"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all"
-Oscar Wilde
Discover Define Develop Deliver
In this Monday afternoon lecture the topic of having ideas was being covered, or at least how it is that we go about having these ideas. Within this lecture we covered the ways in which you can come up with several ideas, how to develop these ideas and experiment with and around them to create more ideas and some other interesting topic points. We covered things like what kind of processes are used commonly and which of them prove to be the most successful - for example uses of mind maps, mood boards and even tracking back to the use of genealogies to attain ideas for something. All of the above are covering how you would go about doing your own primary research, but the ways in which you get secondary research is through looking around the web where you can find bountiful amounts of information for a project.
The first thing that came up for a moment was 'Creativity'. The definition of which was given as "The generation, development and transformation of ideas that are both novel and useful for solving a problem." Creativity can be seen as a method of problem solving, it's easy to understand how the creativity of an idea could be measured by its usefulness.
Another thing I found useful from this lecture was the information given on the creative process, and how it should be broken down into 4 simple steps, as shown below.
The final thing that I found useful from this afternoon lecture was the list of things or at least examples of research methods where we could document our research. These being the following;
Attribute lists / Mind-maps / Synetics / Mood-boards / Brainstorming / Brain-writing / Brain-drawing / Timelines / Genealogy / Visualizing / Sketching / Thumbnails / Storyboards / Animatics / Process testing / Development and staged evaluation and reflection.
