ARC30104/DST30204 Creative Thinking Skills

IDEA JOURNAL: Ideation Process 20%

The Brief The Idea Journal is a documentation to show the “ideation process” for each of the “class assignment”.

Ideation Process is the creative process of generating, developing, and communicating new ideas, where an idea is understood as a basic element of thought that can be visual, concrete, or abstract. Ideation comprises all stages of a thought cycle, from innovation, to development, to actualization. As such, it is an essential part of the design process, both in education and practice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideation_(idea_generation)

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Objectives

To encourage and inculcate the practice of recording ideas visually based on the theory and practice of creative thinking.

To sketch ideas based on the questioning methods which would facilitate ideation.

Duration of Assignment: According to the assignments

Description Students are required to illustrate their idea process and thought process of the given assignment on to pieces of paper as documentation to be submitted together with each the “class assignment”. Idea Journal 20% is distribution a follows; Assignment 1 – 5% Assignment 2 – 5% Assignment 3 – 5% The Idea Journal Compilation – 5%

Total – 20% Idea Journal Compilation is just for you to compile all your Idea Journal, Assignments and Projects work in to a folder. Information about this submission will be provided later in the semester.

Requirements

1. Hand written using pen or pencil and any kind of color medium

2. Any kind of A4 size paper.

3. Submission in clear plastic sleeves.

Submission:

1. Idea Journal - Assignment 1 - How to Fly an Egg 2. Idea Journal - Assignment 2 - Mask 3. Idea Journal - Assignment 3 – Fuse 4. The Idea Journal Compilation

*20 pts score will be based on:

Fluency: the ability to generate

quantities of ideas

Flexibility: the ability to create

different categories of ideas, and to

perceive an idea from different points

of view

Originality: the ability to generate

new, different, and unique ideas that

others are not likely to generate

Elaboration: the ability to expand on

an idea by embellishing it with details

or the ability to create an intricate

plan

*Download CTS assessment/marking

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