Metaphors in Design Problem Solving: Implications for Creativity Metaphors in Design Problem Solving:Implications for Creativity Hernan Pablo Casakin The College of Judea & Samaria, Ariel, Israel Metaphors help designers to understand unfamiliar design problems by juxtaposing them with known situations. Retrieving concepts from metaphors demands creative thinking. While the importance of this heuristic has been acknowledged in design, more research is needed to appreciate its contribution to design practice. Keywords - Metaphors, Creativity, Architecture, Design-Problem-Solving. Relevance to Design Practice - Instead of re-using known design schemas and familiar solutions, the implementation of metaphors in design practice can contribute to creative thinking and thereby to more innovative products. Citation: Casakin, H. Received December 31, 2006; Accepted June 28, 2007; Published August 1, 2007 Copyright: © 2007 Casakin. Corresponding Author: casakin@bezeqint.net Introduction Apart from knowledge and expertise, design problems require creativity. Methods
Passive vs. Active Voice By Erin English teachers like myself love to warn new writers against the evils of passive voice. Here at Daily Writing Tips, Michael has written about passive writing, and I recently wrote about dummy subjects, but it looks like there’s still some confusion about passive voice and its use. For more on passive vs. active sentence construction, I turn to two books that should be staples in any writer’s library: William Zinsser’s On Writing Well, and Constance Hale’s Sin and Syntax. First, let’s review what passive voice is. In most sentences, we have a subject performing an action. In a passive sentence, the subject of the sentence is acted upon rather than performing the action, as in: The ball was thrown by Jason. Verbs in the passive voice have two parts: some form of the verb “to be” and a past participle form of the action verb: was thrown. A writer may choose to use the passive voice in order to emphasize one thing over another. 18 Responses to “Passive vs.
Andy Warhol Soup Cans The Origin of Andy Warhol's Soup Cans or The Synthesis of Nothingnessby Gary Comenas (2003/revised 2010) Robert Indiana: "I knew Andy very well. The reason he painted soup cans is that he liked soup." Andy Warhol used soup cans as subject matter at various stages of his career. Ted Carey and Andy Warhol (Photographer unknown) Ted Carey: "... Lichtenstein later denied that he had any knowledge of Warhol's comic strip paintings prior to doing his own: Roy Lichtenstein: "I saw Andy's work at Leo Castelli's about the same time I brought mine in, about the spring of 1961... It is unlikely that Lichtenstein saw Warhol's cartoon paintings at Castelli as early as spring 1961 as the gallery did not have any of Warhol's cartoon paintings at that time, but Lichtenstein could have seen them in spring 1961 in the Bonwit Teller department store window. Ted Carey: "Lichtenstein was being shown by Castelli, which was, like, the Pop gallery. From Thomas R.
Man Spends 7 Years Drawing Incredibly Intricate Maze Almost 30 years ago a Japanese custodian sat in front of a large A1 size sheet of white paper, whipped out a pen and started drawing the beginnings of diabolically complex maze, each twist and turn springing spontaneously from his brain onto the paper without aid of a computer. The hobby would consume him as he drew in his spare time until its completion nearly 7 years later when the final labyrinth was rolled up and almost forgotten. Twitter user @Kya7y was recently going through some of her father’s old things (he’s still a custodian at a public university) when she happened upon the maze and snapped a few photos to share on Twitter. She was quickly inundated by requests from friends and eventually strangers who had endless questions, the most obvious being: are you making prints!? I’m not sure if prints will be made (I’ll definitely let you know if I hear anything), but it still boggles the mind simply looking at these few snapshots. (via spoon and tamago)
Where the Internet Lives: The First-Ever Glimpse Inside Google’s Data Centers So it really is a series of tubes. For the first time ever Google has posted dozens of rare photographs inside and around its data centers revealing the absurd level of organization, energy and design that goes into powering some of the largest, most powerful systems plugged into the internet. My absolute favorite aspect is the color-coordinated design of their infrastructure as it correlates to the Google logo. What wonderful attention to detail. Problems Caused By Introduced Hoofed Animals in Australia Deer are indigenous to all of the continents on Earth except for Australia and Antarctica, and all of the feral deer now living in Australia were introduced in the 19th century and early 20th centuries. Many of them were introduced by the Acclimatisation Societies and even Queen Victoria unwittingly contributed by sending a small herd of red deer to the state of Queensland in 1873 as gift after they named the state after her, which were subsequently released on the Cressbrook Station. They survived and bred successfully and their descendants can still be found living in the area. However, deer started to be farmed for venison and many escapees found their way into the bush, swelling existing populations and creating new ones so that there are now around 200,000 feral deer in Australia living in some 218 populations. Copyright 2012 AnimalWrites on HubPages Hog Deer image Hogging the Limelight Wikimedia Commons Attribution Share Alike 2.0 Generic
The 15 most toxic places to live - Lake Karachay, Russia Interested in uplifting stories on the natural world, sustainable communities, simple food, and new thinking on how to live well? Please enter a valid email address and try again! No thanks The 15 most toxic places to live - Dzerzhinsk, Russia Interested in uplifting stories on the natural world, sustainable communities, simple food, and new thinking on how to live well? Please enter a valid email address and try again! No thanks Brain Basics - 3D Model of Brain Injury | BrainLine.org Animated Deceleration Injury from a Traumatic Brain Injury TBI Inform: Introduction to Brain Injury What Happens When a Brain Bleeds? Areas of the Brain Affected by Concussion What is Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy? Concussion Recovery The brain is incredibly complex. Located behind the forehead, the frontal lobes are the largest lobes of the brain. planning organizing problem solving memory impulse control decision making selective attention controlling our behavior and emotions The left frontal lobe plays a large role in speech and language. Problems After Injury Injury to the frontal lobes may affect: emotions impulse control language memory social and sexual behavior The temporal lobes are located on the sides of the brain under the parietal lobes and behind the frontal lobes at about the level of the ears. recognizing and processing sound understanding and producing speech various aspects of memory Damage to specific parts of the temporal lobe can result in: heart rate breathing swallowing
Intrinsic/Extrinsic Motivation Intrinsic/Extrinsic motivation and Hierarchy of Needs MOTIVATION: Something that energizes, direct, and sustains behaviors. INTRINSIC MOTIVATION: Internal desires to perform a particular task, people do Certain activities because it gives them pleasure, develops a particular skill, or It’s morally the right thing to do. EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION: Factors external to the individual and unrelated to the Task they are performing. Rewards. · Intrinsically motivated students are bound to do much better in classroom activities, because they are willing and eager to learn new material. · How can we motivate students intrinsically? A theorists by the name of Abraham Maslow, has concluded that before we can be intrinsically motivated we must first satisfy some more basic human needs. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. ·The first four needs are what we call deficiency needs, because they come from things we are lacking. ·Self-actualization is a growth need.
Education Exchange About the Train the Trainer Course Overview The Train the Trainer course is a ten-week online course designed to equip education trainers worldwide with the knowledge, skills, and tools to successfully design and deliver effective and engaging Adobe professional development workshops. Upon course completion, participants will be able to design professional development sessions that empower and inspire students, teachers, and faculty to foster creativity and design innovative digital media. Throughout the course, participants will examine the importance of creativity in education and hear from fellow educators who are successfully using technology to foster creativity with their students.explore Adobe Education’s free online resources, Adobe's industry-leading products, and engaging Adobe product training activities.review best practices in professional development design. Weekly Self-Paced Lessons Sample Weekly Schedule (4-5 hours/week)* *This schedule serves as a model and a guide. Webinars
Education Exchange About the Train the Trainer Course Overview The Train the Trainer course is a ten-week online course designed to equip education trainers worldwide with the knowledge, skills, and tools to successfully design and deliver effective and engaging Adobe professional development workshops. Throughout the course, participants will examine the importance of creativity in education and hear from fellow educators who are successfully using technology to foster creativity with their students.explore Adobe Education’s free online resources, Adobe's industry-leading products, and engaging Adobe product training activities.review best practices in professional development design. Weekly Self-Paced Lessons Course participants will progress through weekly self-paced asynchronous lessons and online discussion forums. Sample Weekly Schedule (4-5 hours/week)* *This schedule serves as a model and a guide. Webinars Requirements Final Assignment Credentials
Youth Voices What is the AYV Community? The AYV Community is a network of thousands of educators around the globe fostering young people’s creativity. Members enjoy free access to a comprehensive collection of media making curriculum, video tutorials, and professional development tools. Learn and collaborate with educators, upload youth media for feedback, request support with technical issues, and participate in a movement of educators unleashing young people’s creative potential. Testimonials “It doesn’t matter if you only have one old camera and a laptop, or a whole lab with new equipment. Jeff Larson, AYV Lead Educator Balboa High School/CAST Academy, San Francisco, California, USA “My reaction when I first looked at AYV Community curriculum – Where has this been all my life?” Oneisha Freeman, AYV Lead Educator Clubhouse Coordinator, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Become an AYV Community Member Today!
On assessing for creativity: yes you can, and yes you should I tweeted yesterday an interesting news item in Erik Robelen’s blog in Education Week that a few states (Oklahoma, California, Massachusetts) are seriously looking into some sort of assessment of creative thinking as part of the whole 21st century skills/entrepreneurship movement. I think it is a great idea, with a lot of potential for leveraging change. Now, of course, the naysayers are quick to say that you cannot measure creative thinking. This is silly: here is a rubric for doing so: Creative. We can and do measure anything: critical and creative thinking, wine quality, doctors, meals, athletic potential, etc. In Bloom’s Taxonomy – designed to categorize and guide the design of measures – Synthesis was the level of thinking for such creativity, as Bloom makes clear in defining it: Synthesis is here defined as the putting together of elements and parts so as to form a whole. Ditto and underscored for student oral presentations. Like this: Like Loading...