Welcome to Creativity

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Creative ability can be likened to human physical abilities such as speed, agility or flexibility.

Everybody talks about creativity but no body really

knows what to do about creativity and how creativity works.

Creative means to possess a brain structure where

neurons are connected in such a way that they enable thinking in a flexible way so the owner of this brain can make connections that others don’t make and don’t see.

The Four Ps

of Creativity

Person

How people are creative

How creative someone is

The characteristics associated with creative people

Process

How people create How people can

use and apply their creativity

Product

The artifacts of creativity

What is a creative product

What makes something creative

How can one tell if something is creative

Press (Environment)

The climate surrounding person, process and product, in which creativity flourishes or is squelched

Brain chip reads man's thoughts. A paralysed man in the US has become the first person to benefit from a brain

chip that reads his mind. Mind over matter

[The 'chip' reads brain signals. Image : BBC]

Wires feed the information from the electrodes into a computer which analyses

the brain signals. The signals are interpreted and translated into cursor

movements, offering the user an alternative way to control devices such as

a computer with thought

Mr. Nagle's device, called BrainGate, consists of nearly 100 hair-thin electrodes implanted a millimetre deep into part of the motor cortex of his brain that

controls movement.

Ubiquitous for creativity

Type

ASIT

Advanced Systematic Inventive Thinking

Dr. Roni Horowitz (Israel)

TRIZ

Theory of Solving Technical Problems

Genrich Altshulle

(up grade)

What ASIT is.

An abbreviation of:

Advanced Systematic Inventive Thinking.

Problem solving tool.

Developing tool for new product idea.

Focus

Depth

Skills

Hard Work

Experience

Growth

Expansion

Linear

Creativity

Lateral Creativity

Breadth

Analogies

Uniqueness

Non-Logic

Innovation

Out-of-the-Box

(Intuitive/Imagination)

(Logic/Knowledge)

Fluency

Flexibility

The Antenna and the ice.

Special system in receiving-transmitting(antenna)that one soldier could carry it over enemy lines, set it up and leave it to operate independently in deep mountain.

Problem: In winter, the supporting pole collapse.

Antenna problem.

General solutions based on :

1. Enlarging the diameter.

2. Removing the ice.

3. Enforcing the pole.

4. Replacing the pole.

Creative solution in antenna case.

Makes the pole accumulate the ice.

Four approaching methods to find a creative solution.

Similarity.

Creative solution is similar to general solution.

Unique situation.

Consider the unique situation in winter.

Idealistic one.

When need, it works but when no need, it disappeared.

Problem can be the solution.

Solution can be found in the problem itself.

Puzzle.

Divide the following shape into 2, 3, 4 and 7 equal parts. Each divided parts should be same shape and same in size.

Rule in a creativity ?

Creativity is a phenomenon that appears to be absolutely chaotic until someone finds the “set of rules” or a way to control it (or at least part of it.)

Periodic table of elements made by Mendeleev.

What ASIT did to creativity is similar to what Mendeleev did to elements.

Problem & Solution.

Problem.

The difference between what we want and what the present status.

(General problem. Technical problem)

1. Problems required some knowledge to solve.

2. Problems required a creative thinking to solve.

< difficulty, unwanted phenomenon, thinking matter, challenge and etc….>

Solution.

Remove the problem or reduce the gap.

Example

Solve followings.

1. X +4=9.

2. “You can not fool all the people all the time.” Write this in the following four squares.

Relation between problem world and solution world.

1.There are solutions in which the solution world is not identical but is included in the problem world.

2. Also there are solutions in which new objects have been added but they are the same kinds of objects as the original ones.

Lip stick stain problem.

General solution.

Install another mirror for lip stick.

Hang towel for removing the stain.

Equip a special cleaning system to remove the stain.

Install a CC-TV system.

Just make the students see how the cleaner clean the mirror in restrooms.

Summary.

In order to solve a problem in a creative way :

1. Define the problem world and find out the worsening factors.

2. Try to find a solution that is not added any new objects that are not in a problem world.

3. Try to change the worsening factors into a beneficial one or neutral one.

How can we make a filter having many holes?

Reverse thinking tool.

Solution.

Reverse thinking tool.

Microsoft – Ident Technology – (1) Microsoft patents body

power. The skinny on IT - The human body as a computer

bus. What Microsoft is proposing is to use the skin's own

conductive properties to transmit the data needed to create

such a network

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Wearable(Com.)

Summary.

In order to solve a problem in a creative way :

1. Define the problem world and find out the worsening factors.

2. Try to find a solution that is not added any new objects that are not in a problem world.

3. Try to change the worsening factors into a beneficial one or neutral one.

Conclusion.

You can not run before you walk. In the beginning,

you will be forcing yourself

Now select one problem. And just write down the problem as though you were telling someone else about what is wrong with the situation.

It is very important to put pen to paper (or a digital analog) when using creativity. Writing helps you focus more on the creativity process.