Design Term 3

Slide 1

• students will know the expectations for term 3
• students will know about divergent thinking strategies
• Assessment: build section of city in Lego software

Week one: Divergent thinking strategies

• Gives opportunity to create choices and improve ideation
• - prompted by thought, ideas, inspiration, and research
• - unconstrained and unfiltered
• - iterative, builds on past ideas, and informs new ideas
• - it asks "what are the possibilities"
• unconstrained
• - not held back - Merriam-Webster,
• - not restricted or limited - Oxford Languages
• - without limits or restrictions - vocabulary.com
• Unfiltered
• - not modified, processed or refined - Merriam-Webster
• - with no information removed - Cambridge dictionary
• Iterative
• - doing something again and again, usually to improve - Cambridge dictionary
• - involving repetition - Merriam-Webster

Slide 3

• Divergent thinking occurs throughout the design process but is often most evident in the early explore and develop phases
• Brainstorming: is essential technique of divergent thinking
• the focus is on possibilities and the creative thinking that inspires it is open, non-judgemental, and imaginative
• can be a concept or mind map, word list, idea box,

Activity

• Word List:
• - island - secluded - tide
• - beach - pollution - rocks
• - sun - unexplored - ocean life
• - sky - indigenous - grass
• - atmosphere - ecosphere
• - clouds - fragile
• - trees - evolution
• - soil
• - roots
• - coast
• - water
• - ocean
• Concept Map:

Week two: Assignment, stakeholders, etc.

Week three: Convergent thinking, etc

Week four: thumbnail sketching, solutions

Five - Seven - work on assessment

Week eight - evaluate work

Week nine - finalise and presentations

14/07/2021- Divergent thinking

• divergent - to develop in different directions
• thinking - using brain
• divergent thinking: developing ideas by exploring different directions while using your brain
• Concept maps: basic form of brainstorming, explore ideas by defining main idea and branching out sub-topics, stakeholders, needs, materials, methods, etc. then explore themes and ideas, then facts, questions, research prompts,
• Word list: any related phrases or words, users, end goals, location, features, shapes, sizes, expand with second list, primary secondary users, new, different, functional, aesthetic, etc. then explore words further, identify key words to inspire ideation sketching,
• Idea box: columns and rows, identify key features, look at possible combinations, 4-by-4 grid is 70 possible outcomes.

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