Creativity

IDEO seems to use all four types of creativity discussed in Chapter 3, to approach the methods of creating an improved shopping cart. However, the two specific types of creativity that I feel IDEO spent a reasonable amount of time doing are Incubation and Improvement. The act of Teamwork is highly implemented in IDEO for finding a new design to meet the deadline complete the given task. The group assigned to work on the task of creating a new Shopping cart is led by a team leader, who welcomes…

Creativity is the cornerstone of American ingenuity, commerce and success. To be creative is to be curious, critically thinking and defined as an individual who tests the boundaries of possibility. In order to reignite the fire that drives Americans to be world leaders, a class in creativity is necessary in every school, at every grade level and supported by the school board of education who holds, in their powerful hands, the fate of young people across the country. Understanding the…

My personal philanthropic goals are to donate my design skills to my community. I want to create my own design firm and provide volunteer work through my business, a growing number of young designers are attracted to humanitarian work, like myself. The practice of architecture and design can be a huge component to advertising my personal skills. The greatest asset to an ID (Interior Design) is the individual skill sets they have, so no one has the same skills that you do. Relating back to…

utilization of creative industries positively reflects YouTube as a media outlet, the term vloggers and how they are used in the medium and finally, YouTube as a commodity and its loss in authentication. Adding the financial aspect diminishes the creativity of YouTube’s videos, resulting in numerous of…

Ellen DeGeneres Georges Braque once said, “art is a wound turned into light.” Art, more generally known as creativity, is a tool that is used for many different reasons. Ellen DeGeneres has used creativity as a tool of expression and healing throughout her life. The way that she has integrated creativity into her daily life has fabricated who she is, shaped a way to heal, and ultimately allowed her to build a solid community of followers that see her to be a genius in our society. Ellen…

and became creative in some way throughout this semester. Creativity is unique to almost every individual. Creativity can be expressed in different forms such as writing, acting, personality, drawing and multiple other forms. Throughout the semester, we saw creativity through presentations and three different books. The whole class revolved around creativity and the different aspects of it. Therefore, the real question is, does creativity really have a meaning that fits for everyone? The first…

The way creative industries rooted in western economies could drive smaller “industries”, like rural communities for instance, to use creativity to ‘shape people’s livelihood’(Collective Action and Property Rights fro Poverty Reduction, p. 328) towards a creation of collectives that would perhaps coalesced together ‘update’ their environment. At a community level, rural Cambodia’s system, as mentioned previously, plods along of cultural bridges, in fact, one of the most serious problem is that…

Creativity is something that stems from the mind and is different for everyone. In fashion design and fashion merchandising, you are constantly trying to come up with new ideas. This can be difficult for many people and can become a challenge for some. The book Thinker Toys by Michael Michalko, helps students to understand how to think outside of the box and find new ways to get their creative juices flowing, as well as Andrew Tate and the Creative Blog Staff in their articles online. Chapter…

Art therapy, a creative and expressive form of therapy, has been used as an artistic creative process in order to improve a person’s physical, mental, and emotional well-being (American Art Therapy Association, 2013). The overall purpose of this process is to aid in healing. This includes someone expressing him or herself artistically, which helps them resolve any hidden issues and manage their behaviors and feelings. Art therapy covers a broad spectrum, such as drawing, coloring, painting, the…

further. Creativity can sometimes lead to misconceptions though. There is a line to be drawn between allowing pupils to follow their own paths and a planned lesson where there is a greater emphasis on encouraging enquiry and debate between pupils. To accommodate this schools would need to ensure that teaching and support staff have a high level of subject knowledge so as they have the confidence to allow pupils to question and discover answers in a less structured way (Ofsted, 2010). Creativity…