Creativity in Context final project

SO YOU WANT TO BE AN

INNOVATOR?

HERE’S HOW.

RECONTRUCT. For the first few classes this semester, we would rearrange the desks in a way so all 23 of us would be looking at each other.

We all put our brains together to come up with different ways on how to do this.

Even without talking about the actual course, we were already being innovativejust by organizing desks.

 

REICH IT OUT. Steve Reich is an American composer.

He is an example of an innovative thinker because he went around the streets or sat down at a restaurant and recorded random sounds to make them into a rhythm.

He got sounds that had nothing to do with each other and made them one.

 

 

THRIVE ON INTUITION.

These are all works of Pablo Picasso.

He used only one line to do these different animals.

We had to do some drawings using these tactics, and this made us think of new ways to draw something we’re so used to drawing.

 

APPRECIATE THE SMALL. Some things in nature are taken forgotten and we forget to really appreciate the details of everything.

We spent 15 minutes outside noticing the things we’re too busy to notice going from place to place.

Just like how the leaf at the top looks like a lip, or that the patterns on the wings of different bugs are unique- like fingerprints.

PUBLICIZE EMOTIONS.  

Muumenshanz was a show on Sesame Street showing emotions in original ways. Everyone shares the same emotions, so everyone knows what those emotions entail.

These two characters showed the process of a relationship, and people could somewhat relate to them even though the whole skit was silent.

 

SAME BUT DIFFERENT.

For the 28 day challenge, we had to do different creative assignments for the first 7 days, for the second 7 days we had to repeat one thing we did in the first exercise, and the last 14 days we had to repeat another task.

Even though we used repetition of the task, it opened up our creativity because we had to do different versions of them. For example, different mandalas or different designs of clothes.

 

ORIGINALITY.

Charles Eames was a very innovative thinker. He realized that chairs were very uncomfortable and so were the splints used to aid soldiers. He said that failing is the best method to learn, because you experience new things.

This is a great example to the rest of us young innovators because people usually give up after failing just once, and he failed many times before reaching success.

 

BLEND.

For this Schnipp Schnapp assignment, we had to cut a random picture from a magazine and draw a picture around it to create the cut picture into something brand new.

This blending aided us in opening our mind in a way we didn’t know we needed.

Challenging your brain can bring you to unique art.

 

BIG TO SMALL.

In Blackout Poetry, we were given a newspaper, told to find a random article and look for the words we found interesting and sharpie out the rest.

This enabled us to look at something big and minimize it to something much more personal, turning a boring current events article into a meaningful poem. This shows how unpredictable art can be.

THINK THEM.

Photographers like Jacob Riis and Cindy Sherman take pictures of people and their situations so their audience can really tell what's happening in the picture so we can feel for those people, this is what makes their work so powerful.

One picture speaks 1000 words.

Empathizing adds a bonus factor to everyone’s art.