Hands, eyes and mind: Ideation as a holistic process

The workshop highlights the use of ideation tools, that is the use of words, freehand sketching, physical modelling and computing in generating and communicating ideas. But the usage is not just in the context of tools being practical or necessary for producing texts, images or artefacts: The tools are also thinking tools. This becomes clear when ideators, who, at first, may be less skillful in using the tool/s in a routine technical sense but through familiarisation, application and practice the ideator will gain confidence in creative engagement and action increasingly shifting attention to ideation as a holistic process. Eventually, through practice the tool/s become an almost automatic extension of the ideator's hands, eyes and mind. In other words, the ideation workshop demonstrates how thinking and doing support each other and become one enhancing the ability to generate new ideas and artefacts.