Assignment
Watch the TED Video Tim Brown: Tales of creativity and play (in Blackboard).
Summarise the 30 Min video into 200 words(you can use bullet points/diagrams).
Place into any of this weeks “a picture a day”
Watch the TED Video Tim Brown: Tales of creativity and play (in Blackboard).
Summarise the 30 Min video into 200 words(you can use bullet points/diagrams).
Place into any of this weeks “a picture a day”
Summary
- Adult habits
- Tendency to categorise, assimilate, edit (Convergent thinking)
- Must go beyond normal way of thinking and forget "adult behaviors" that get in the way of ideas
- It’s hard to break these habits.
- Trust between collaborators allows play and creativity.
- e.g. trust frees one from fear of embarrassment, and self-editing of making mistakes
- Play-like behaviors are useful to the creative process, including:
- Exploration
- Divergent thinking
- A stage whereby quantity of ideas is more important than quality
- Building and thinking with hands
- Especially to better understand materials, 3D design, and product prototyping
- Role-play
- Encourage empathy for user
- Improve understanding of problem > for better solutions
- Especially relevant for service and process design
- Transitioning in and out of play
- A rule to make play productive
- i.e. Divergence (play, exploration, divergent thinking) and Convergence (editing and refining)
- "...be a serious professional adult and, at times, be playful." Not "OR".
Reflection
- Freedom
- Instead of trust, the crux is freedom from fear of embarrassment and resultant inhibition
- Besides trust, self-confidence and disregard of others' opinions may encourage sense of freedom.
- To see this in other ways, it's about transitioning between periods of:
- Self-confidence and humility (bordering over-confidence and insecurity)
- Not caring about others, and caring
- On "...be a serious professional and, at times, playful"
- NOT "playful professional, and at times, serious"
- Irony: "play" here neglects fun
- Focused on practical purposes
- Yet play = "engage in activity for enjoyment and recreation rather than a serious or practical purpose."
- http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/play
- Thus, Brown's "play" isn't quite play.
