Creativity: Cures for cues. Providing evocative situations to explore creative solutions for seemingly not matching phenomena

Creativity: Cures for cues. Providing evocative situations to explore creative solutions for seemingly not matching phenomena

Stellingwerff, M.C.

Architecture

Architecture

2013-05-22

The conference theme, 'knowing (by) designing', specifically addresses (the processes involved in getting) experiential knowledge from designer's actions. The knowledge gained by designing can be domain specific (regarding e.g. the characteristics of certain materials, tools and techniques) and it can be more fundaniental knowledge about design methods, (group) processes, and ways to situate design actions. In this paper I would like to discuss a number of educational assigntnents that specifically stimulate creative actions. Tlie assignments belong to a cross-disciplinary teaching program aimed at design students within the engineering and architectural discipline. In this educational case the knowledge gained by designing is knowledge about designing. Knowledge about how you, as a designer (or student), can set the setting in which you are more likely to get ideas that could lead to creative insights: 'cures for cues'.

creativity
associations
situatedness
experiential knowledge
design

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Sint Lucas School of Architecture Brussels/Ghent; Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven

9789081323864

Knowing (by) Designing: Proceedings of the Conference "Knowing (by) Designing", Brussels, Belgium, 22-23 May 2013

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conference paper

(c) 2013 Stellingwerff, M.C.