why are you here? because you are creative
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Why are you here? Because you are creative. The “ Six Common Objects, Six Billion Possibilities ” project. Teachers. P roject facilitator: Peter Han Houston, Texas, USA. P roject coordinator: Claudia Morar “Lucian Blaga Highschool”, Cluj-Napoca Romania. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Why are you here?Because you are creative
The“Six Common Objects, Six Billion Possibilities”
project
Teachers
Project facilitator: Peter HanHouston,Texas,USA
Project coordinator: Claudia Morar“Lucian Blaga Highschool”,Cluj-NapocaRomania
Creative and open-minded students
10th graders : Iulia Ungur, Oana Lutai, MihaiMeciu, Florin Muresan, Andrei Bucataru, BogdanRoman, Dragos Tripon, Lepsa Dan, Diana Iusco,Somesan Mara, Lupsa Alina, Cira Bianca, ArseneAndreea11th graders : Bianca Mesesan, Diana Ilinca,Monica Marcus, Oana ,Vagner Carla Penta, MariaMustatea, Alex Mateiu, Alin Marcean, YasmineTawil, Catalina Ciolan, Maria
Summary of the project
We invite students around the world to make *something interesting *something artistic*something useful out of 6 ordinary objects which we specify.
Our six objects are:
• One plastic shopping bag• One pencil• One plastic bottle• One rubber band• One sheet of paper• One paper clip
What a cool challenge !
Aim
It would be most interesting to seethe diversity of designs that
emergefrom around the world and to hearabout how each group of students
from different age groups andcultures approached this design
challenge and their resulting designs.
Results• gain a better understanding of the design and creative idea
generation process by using it to produce their school design.• gain a better appreciation for the diverse ways people can be
creative and learn new ways to tap into their innate creativity.• gain experience making decisions and resolving conflicts in
producing a team design. • learn to see their world and the ordinary objects in it from
multiple perspectives and hopefully will apply this enhanced sensitivity beyond this project.
• learn about different cultures by hearing how other schools from other cultures approached this design challenge and by comparing the resulting designs from each school.
• begin to change their mindset about creativity and invention from a fixed to a growth model (creativity and inventiveness are muscles that everyone can exercise to enhance their capacity).
Development*Participating schools indicate their interest by October1, 2010. *Schools design and build their creations duringOctober*By November 30th, post pictures and narratives(written or video) describing their design and how theyapproached the challenge. They will be posted on theproject blog*We then host a series of Skype video calls to discussdifferences and similarities in how we approached thedesign challenge and discuss how our designs reflectour culture.
Thank you!Now, let’s finally get
down to creative business!
First meeting: October 15, 2010
Meet the group !
We are looking forward to seeing the new
designs!