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CRITICAL & CREATIVE THINKING
BY DESIGN
Teri WagnerLiesl Baum
Phyllis Newbill
INSTITUTE FOR
CREATIVITY,
ARTS, AND
TECHNOLOGY
4 ASPECTS OF
CRITICAL AND
CREATIVE THINKING
PHASES OF
DESIGN
Critical and Creative Thinking• Brainstorm• Conceptualize• Explore• Use analogies• Use metaphors• Examine ideas in new and
varied ways• Observe• Elaborate• Infer• Extrapolate• Make remote associations
Critical and Creative Thinking• Question• Separate• Organize• Interpret• Summarize• Hypothesize• Compose• Judge resources• Judge logic• Judge value and worth• Generalize
Critical and Creative Thinking• Demonstrate autonomy• Persist• Maintain intrinsic motivation• Recognize relevance• Avoid impulsivity• Reject stereotypes and
prejudices• Embrace multiple points of
view• Judge assumptions• Remain sensitive• Remain open-minded• Tolerate ambiguity
Critical and Creative Thinking• Recognize a challenge• Assess knowledge• Understand ability• Allocate resources• Focus• Perform• Progress• Identify consequences• Revise• Cognitive restructuring• Evaluate the process• Evaluate the product
Design Phases:
Narrow/Focus
• Find meaningful/relevant problems to solve
• Ask, “How might we…”
Design Phases:
Empathize
• Identify target audience
• Observe, interact, ask questions
• Understand their perspective
Design Phases:
Define
• Reframe the problem based on users’ needs
• Identify and remove assumptions
• Solve the right problem
Design Phases:
Ideate
• Generate multiple ideas for potential solutions
• Ask, “What if…”• Outlandish ideas
welcome!
Design Phases:
Prototype & Test
• Build informal physical models of ideas
• Let target users test• Utilize feedback to
improve
What is design?
STOP, DROP,AND…
DESIGN
WHAT TO DO?
• EMPTY YOUR BAG
• READ YOUR CHALLENGE CARD
• FIND A NEW SOLUTION TO THE CHALLENGE USING ONLY THE ITEMS IN YOUR BAG
• CREATE A PROTOTYPE
in the next 15 minutes…
SHARE!
• WHAT WAS YOUR TEAM’S CHALLENGE?
• DESCRIBE YOUR SOLUTION.
• WHICH CRITICAL AND CREATIVE THINKING
SKILLS DID YOU USE?
• Create a safe way to cook in a home with no electricity
• Keep a new born baby warm in a space with no electricity
• Collect and carry water
• Create a safe light source for a home with no electricity
• Carry groceries up several flights of steps
• Block sun and wind in the desert
• Create a system for sharing food
• Imagine a new communication system
• Imagine a way to drink on the go.
SAMPLE CHALLENGES
OTHER DESIGNED THINGS?
CLASSROOM APPLICATIONS
• ENGLISH?
• BIOLOGY?
• EDUCATION?
• SOCIOLOGY?
• HISTORY?
• OTHER?
RESOURCES
IDEA Studio:
http://www.icat.vt.edu/IDEAS/index.html
Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum:
http://www.cooperhewitt.org/learning/designcenter
Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford:
http://dschool.stanford.edu/