The ideation workshop can be seen as a kind of mindfulness practice, that is, mindfulness as in focusing in the present moment, the here and now. Or, in a state of being aware, of noticing things, as in "if you are noticing things, you are mindful of them". And noticing things include first thoughts and ideas that pop up in our mind. Ideation, then, is mindfulness. And the ideation workshop mindfulness practice.
Friday 23 October 2020
Mind the idea
Thursday 8 October 2020
Sensory ideation
The workshop encourages creative activity that involves all the senses, that is, touch, smell, taste, sight and hearing. The workshop's hands-on sensory activities thus facilitate exploration and naturally encourage participant designers to use a range of ideation tools in order to create, experiment and explore. The workshop, then, in stimulating the senses, helps designers develop cognitively (creative thinking), linguistically (idea communication), socially (collaborative ideation), emotionally (emotional design) and physically (tool skills). Moreover, in this way, the workshop offers opportunity to engage all of the senses to explore ideas and concepts that might be too abstract to express without the tactile experience.
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