This course deals directly with your ability for creativity which is a critical skill in any field. It focuses on divergent thinking, the ability to develop multiple ideas and concepts to solve problems. Through a series of creativity building exercises, short lectures, and readings, learners develop both an understanding of creativity and increase their own ability. This course will help you understand the role of creativity and innovation in your own work and in other disciplines. It will challenge you to move outside of your existing comfort zone and to recognize the value of that exploration. This course will help you understand the importance of diverse ideas, and to convey that understanding to others. The principal learning activity in the course is a series of "differents" where you are challenged to identify and change your own cultural, habitual, and normal patterns of behavior. Beginning with a prompt, e.g. "eat something different", you will begin to recognize your own = limits and to overcome them. In addition, you are encouraged to understand that creativity is based on societal norms, and that by it's nature, it will differ from and be discouraged by society. In this course, the persistence of the creative person is developed through practice. At the same time, these exercises are constrained by concerns of safety, legality, and economics, which are addressed in their creative process.
2014 DSD 1 Live Review
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来自 University of Minnesota 的课程
如何创造性解决问题
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Introduction to the Course
Creative problem solving is a skill that can be developed. It requires extensive work by learners, but the lessons, while not conveying traditional content, will change the you in ways you do not foresee, but ways which are cherished. The course is a hybrid; it will involve reading, writing, discussions, as well as specific exercises designed to increase and improve your creative skills. You will do work online as well as in the real world; it is designed to be fun and to change your ability for creativity.
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Brad Hokanson, PhDProfessor
College of Design
Jody Nyboer, PhDInstructor
School of Design
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Hi, Creative Problem Solving, this is the live review,
we're going to be doing one of these each week reviewing
some of the DSD, your projects that you've been
submitting, both to the forums and to your assignment submissions.
So this is the first one, we're going to pull up some of the best ones from the
DSD [INAUDIBLE] just to give you a little bit
of sense of what's going on in the class.
Talking about them and sort of some of the most interesting concepts that we've seen.
>> I think one of the things to remember is that if you have a
really good idea you should post it to the forum so your peers can see it.
If you're just submitting it to the class, which you have
to do separately, that doesn't open it up to everybody else.
If you just submit it for the assignment, it'll
only get seen your peers that are evaluating your work.
Sending it out to the forum gets it shared to everybody else that's in the course.
So we're starting and we found one which is and I'm going to
be looking over here to the screen, it's a salad but it's made
with beets and goat cheese as opposed to the, the normal what one
would expect in say a, a European or Italian salad with mozzarella and tomato.
This is gorgeous picture of this salad and the question is, how different is this?
And we need to figure out where this person is coming from, whether they don't
eat the, the beets or whether they, they are used to eating a normal Caprese salad.
And so, those are the questions we'd like to
hear about, in terms of your writing about the assignment.
It's always good to do it in public, as well, this person said that
they had eaten at work, and people had, were amazed at what they were eating.
So, that's always a fun thing to do, and you'll
get a, a good reputation for being creative just from that.
Our next one was a little bit, was something different.
Of course, we did ask you to eat something different.
A lot of times with the assignment, people eat something
that's different that they're trying to work with the words.
And this actually comes out pretty well.
You can't eat your own words, you can't eat your hat, so she wrote, she
wrote down something different on a piece of paper and she ended up eating that.
And she says her husband thought she was a little bit crazy.
It's not as public as walking down the street while doing it, but it's as good
at least to get out to someone in your family in terms of what you're doing.
It makes them think you're more creative as well.
The student reached a little discussion in the forums.
We'd like, we'd like to make sure that you post your
pictures in terms of in the forums as well, but she didn't.
And she she's from Cambodia, and she ate a tarantula sandwich.
And one of the things that came up, and there were some good comments in the forum
about this, is that they, she said that they
eat a lot of tarantulas as snacks in Cambodia.
And so she has this bowl of Tarantulas and
she's dished them up on salad, or on the sandwich.
And has been eating it, sort of tarantulas on white bread.
One of the questions though, is if you eat something all the
time, even if it is something really weird for the rest of us
on the planet you gotta explain how you ate that, that was different
from what you normally ate, so we have to assume it's the sandwich.
Eating a sandwich is, is the norm in a lot of countries, but not all over the place.
So, the sandwich is the important part not
the tarantula, certainly something we didn't expect to happen.
>> I'm going to make the spaghetti, putting it in to a pot of boiling water.
And here we go, let's let that cook, it'll
take about eight minutes, and I'll be right back.
>> What was it, he wanted to measure, wanted to
see how much the length of the spaghetti he was eating.
>> Measuring the, yes, the distance of the
spaghetti, rather than the quantity in this case?
>> Yeah.
>> And this one's a video, too it sounds pretty neat it's
>> It's walking out on the street and, and measuring your spaghetti and
having innocent bystanders come by and actually roll the spaghetti of the tube.
It's a great exercise in terms of doing something
really ordinary, but doing it in a very creative way.
>> Very public way, too.
>> One of the good submissions that we saw in
both the forum and, and in the, and in the
assignments was we wanted, he said he doesn't have time
to eat five vegetables a day or five fruits or
vegetables a day, and so he ended up putting it
all in an empty toothpaste container, chopping up the food,
Blending it, and putting it in to this tooth paste
tube that you can carry around with you at all times.
Certainly maybe not the most appetizing way to eat, but certainly very
creative, and certainly kind of fun when you're talking to someone else.
>> Yeah, we've seen a couple of
interesting ones about packaging of food, or ordinary
food in a unique way which I think is a really creative approach to this too.
Reusing materials is you know, a big problem area
and also just finding new materials to package ordinary
things is a good you know, design problem and
something that should be considered when you're doing these.
>> So, it's not always eating something thats completely different than you've
eaten before, it might be eating it a different way, that's eating
differently as some people have talked about or it might be choosing
to redefine what I say, what we've said in terms of the assignment.
The challenge is this, you say it really could be something
else, in terms of being creative, that's what we're looking for.
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>> [LAUGH]
>> One of the ones that we saw that, that is certainly breaking a
lot of social norms, that's what happens
with creativity is you break these social norms.
One of the things that happens is we go out to a food court or a public
restaurant, then walking around and eating somebody else,
somebody else's food is really kind of frowned on.
Occasionally it happens with your spouse or with your significant other, that's
not always the most fun either if you've got the right choice in
your dining pleasure, but walking around and doing it with strangers is
certainly that's something that's odd and
certainly that's very different and very creative.
So we, there's one really great one here about seeing
people eating off of different people's plates in a food court.
Completely innocent people that have been pulled into the assignment.
>> Yeah.
It's a good introductory one, too, I think because
you are dealing with rejection of other people thinking
you're a little bit too weird, going out there
and stealing off of their plates, but in reality.
You know, there's a lot of people willing to participate too, so
it's a really, really good activity to introduce yourself to these assignments.
>> A lot of times what happens is, you're
looked at a little strange for what you're doing and
that's part, you need to power past that you need
to get past that in order to be more creative.
Because creativity by definition is something that's
a little unusual and something that's surprising.
And the last one is actually the one that's really gorgeous
in terms of the pictures, the person made a utensil out
of some vegetable out a celery stalk, and a little bit
of reinforcement from a bamboo shoot and then ate soup with it.
Perhaps really a great picture here in terms
of what's going on, we really enjoyed the visual
characteristics of this and certainly, I'm assuming they
have never made a spoon on their own before.
>> I would guess that too, I mean again it's another
one of these that we've seen dealing with wastes and utensil issues
and you know, a good way to approach that problem is you
know, what else can you do to eat your do, food differently.
That's also incorporates the entire assignment,
you've got the utensil, you've got
the food, and you've got the problem solved a little bit differently.
A nice little table set of [INAUDIBLE] at the bottom, too.
But I think they went all out with this one,
it sounds like, with actually
incorporating all these traditional cultural ingredients.
Because if you think about it, the nature of this class,
the creativity involved is pretty culturally
contingent, and what they've done is
taken that, sharing that with, you know, kind of a globe,
global community, and turning the food itself into the edible item here.
So a different twist, and a different way to involve other people, and
also cook with your food and play with your food, and solve this problem.
>> In this case, what they did is they made the, the cutlery, the utensils that
they would eat the food with, out of
bread itself, and then they ate the traditional meal.
Of course, they gave themselves an additional rule where they
had to eat the whole meal just using the bread Utensils.
>> Right.
>> And one of them broke.
>> Sad.
>> What, well I don't know.
>> Phase two, phase two.
>> Well, what we'd suggest now is that we've
got another do something different coming up, and I would
say check the announcements that are up on the page,
you know what's going to happen in terms of next week.
You'll have some peer evaluations that you'll have to do
soon, in terms of looking at other people's do something differents.
We're using those as a way to build your own critiquing capability,
your ability to try to figure out how to make an idea better.
We look forward to seeing the work that you've done next time.
We think that the work this time has been really surprising and really interesting.
We think it's a real cultural phenomenon and it's
happening across the world given the scale of the course.
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