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Re-thinking the creativity training in design education: A study of creative thinking tools for facilitating creativity development of design students.
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Date Issued
2009
ISSN
1474-273X
Citation
Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 2009, 8(1), 71-84.
Type
Peer Reviewed Journal Article
Abstract
A deliberate design and arrangement of creative learning activities in tertiary design education is crucial in helping design students to release their creative potential. Unfortunately, a systematic and deliberate design of creativity training has not yet been implemented in any higher design education institutes in Hong Kong. This article aims to classify various creative-thinking techniques in order to provide design educators with the chance to rethink the arrangement of creativity training in higher design education. Although this article is unable to provide a pedagogical framework for design educators, the five categories, namely (1) identifying and mapping attributes; (2) making possibilities; (3) changing and shifting perspectives; (4) making associations and analogical thinking; and (5) probing emotion and the subconscious, have been classified and introduced to support the importance of arranging appropriate creative-thinking techniques to learning and teaching of creativity in design education.
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