Semester Two Creativity & Concept

The first creativity and concept session after Christmas we were introduced into the module assignment, after being introduced to the module we were then asked to complete a questionnaire which was on a university website; the questionnaire showed that I am a level/even person on all the areas of the questionnaire, I had the same score on most areas apart from one or two. After the questionnaire we were then asked to get into teams, me and Megan got into a team. We were then asked to pick a group of people that would visit the new Liverpool museum; the group of people we chose was a Local History group. Over the next couple of weeks we have to come up with an idea for something new that could be added for the Local History group, we have to pitch our ideas to our tutors in a couple of weeks. The second session we had been placed into teams, the aim of the lecture was to learn about becoming facilitator, the task that we had to take part in was to come up with ideas for a LJMU day which would celebrate JMU success. We had to come up with ideas with a budget of £1000. The next lecture we had we explored De Bono’s six thinking hats, we were given an idea which we had to develop using the six thinking hats.

o   White Hat Thinking; Data, Facts, Information known and needed.

o   Black Hat Thinking; Difficulties, Potential Problems. Why something may not work.

o   Red Hat Thinking; Feelings, Hunches, Gut Instinct and Intuition.

o   Green Hat Thinking; Creativity – Possibilities, Alternatives, Solutions, New Ideas.

o   Yellow Hat Thinking; Values and Benefits. Why something may work.

o   Blue Hat Thinking; Manage The Thinking Process, Focus, Next Steps, and Action Plans.

In the latest lecture in our groups we were asked four questions;

1.       What/ who is your user group?

2.       How does this user effect the client?

3.       Initial Thoughts? –Not solutions but more a breakdown of user / client / content.

4.       How are you proposing to go about this project?

-What is the process?   - What are the roles?

At the beginning of the lecture me and Kay created a diagram with ideas, but once we had a discussion with one of our tutors she explained that we needed to explore our user group first. We created profiles of people that would be in our user group, the profiles consisted of their job title, description about them, interests, dreams, education and music and also ideas that would interest them to the new museum. Before our pitch in a couple of weeks we will develop through the next questions so that we come up with an original idea, which will appeal to our user group.

I enjoyed using the six thinking hats because when using them you have to make sure that the product/idea you are coming up with will actually work, also that the product/idea is original from others.