Creative Thinking Processes - ADAD2405
Faculty: Faculty of Art & Design
School: School of Art & Design
Course Outline: Download course outline (PDF format)
Campus: Paddington
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Equivalent: COFA0214
Excluded: ADAD9405
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
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Available for General Education: Yes (more info)
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Description
We will test the principles of interconnectivity, bisociation (conceptual blending), non-linear (associative) thinking, and use maps, models and metaphors to develop your creative thinking through research, analysis and application of these models to your own ideas. Many famous creative thinkers have used a wide range of processes that we will critically explore and apply.
An important part of understanding and applying the creative process is an examination of how we learn, and how to facilitate the best possible conditions and environments for working in innovative and creative ways. The balance between strategic planning and goal-free approaches to creative processes will be analysed and discussed in relation to the applied research of Professor Teresa Amabile and Professor Tina Seelig amongst others.
Collaborative theory and practice have at their core the potential to extend and enhance outcomes in multi-disciplinary thinking. Relating to this, the model of Combined Divergence will be introduced, and applied to a project based analysis of the overlaps between critical and creative thinking methodologies.