welcome to the second part of module free
so module free is about creativity tools so tools and techniques that will help you to become
more creative in the first part of this module we looked at knowing how to see so looking really
trying to understand what your problem is all about looking at problem for different lens and
today I will present to you some new tools which are help you to make your fault visible so you
might have a lot of ideas and things in your head and then to be able to convey this idea of this
message or this solution you will see that there are some some techniques that will help you to
make your fault visible so a lot of this technique more or less emerged during the Renaissance so
in Italy during the 14th to 16th century where a lot of artists but also engineers and I mean
in lots of different discipline started to use what we call parallel languages or languages that
were based on drawings diagram and graph and so the Renaissance is consider a period of history
where there was really an explosion of creativity and I mean you may have heard I mean people like
Leonardo da Vinci and so on who somehow lived in during this period so the idea is how can you
convey this knowledge of these ideas that you have into this parallel language for drawing
diagram and graph now here art for example some some drawings that were taken directly from the
walk of of Galileo or from the work of Leonardo da Vinci who somehow started to represent what they
believed the knowledge was or try to illustrate what they thought I mean some of the concept
of some of the phenomenon associated with some problems they were facing could be could be solved
so the use of diagram was really a way to capture information we also to formulate problem and we're
also a way to solve this this problem so three different purpose first capturing information
second to formulate a problem and third different use was really to solve this problem so I mean
Leonardo da Vinci done a lot a lot of drawings in a lot a lot of different field so this is what
he calls the illegal a screw which was probably the ancestor of the helicopter and we can see
through the also drawing of a plane Leonardo that I mean he already was when you're head of his
time and it was really very very creative for I mean based on the knowledge that was available
at this time another one which is I guess very well known and quite popular is Vitruvian Man
so again Leonardo just by observation and began doing drawing was able to show that in fact the
proportion of the human figure could fit more or less in see a corona in a square so again very
I mean some things that could not have probably that people would not have been able to realize
until they see these drawings and until even himself we try to somehow Express is idea that is
concept in for drawings now for lots of ideas and concept language is not really the best way or
the best medium to communicate these ideas and this problem so in fact what we have in our head
is more likely to be represented or convey through the use of of drawings and there is a particular
tool that we called mind map which somehow helps to map a little bit what we have in our brain and
helps to to put on paper a bit the relationship that exists also between these ideas on on paper
so what is a mind map so my mud map could be a consider as an organized brainstorming method
and again where you start from a central theme and then you look at all the different folds that
you have around this theme and the association that exists behind this behind this idea behind
this this fold so mind map doesn't really select information based on categories but more as try
to explore I mean what comes to your mind when you think about a particular thing and what does
it trigger and what does it trigger and so on so you explore little bit all the different avenues
of things that comes to your mind when you think about a particular thing or a particular problem
of particular challenge that use at your face so the Association are potentially infinite so it
means that I mean you could go on and go on and go on and go on I mean the goal is not to go to
to expand to to merge the mind map but at least to to understand what are some of the key ideas
and concepts that somehow could be explore further around a central theme now here is an example of
a mind map so the central theme was yellow so what do you think when you think about yellow so you
can see here your presentation I mean I guess that some things that come from the US people say
bus for in Sun because school buss are yellow in the in the US then they say banana and then they
says it mention other colors like green orange or that Foley which is somehow a flower which is
also yellow so that small as the first level and then for each of the level for instance if you
take birth what do you think when you think of births where are these people this person thought
about vehicle about truck about fire engine about car and and so on so what do you think when you
think about banana I think about Apple I think about pear I think about peach what do you think
when you think about I think about fruit and so on so as you can see you explore a little bit what
are some of the common ideas or concept that comes to your mind based on the central theme first and
how it evolved later on and then you also link the concepts that are somehow connected with each
other's like for instance in the case of bananas I was up world parent and peach and then all of
them were concept I mean connected to the concept of fruit so a line and a drawing was maybe behind
I mean in between them so you start by a central theme and then you expand probably I mean I don't
know he depends a bit how much time you have and how much you want to explore but maybe three four
five six levels down and then later on it becomes probably a little bit too big to to manage now
here is another example again which is centered around iced tea what comes to your mind when
you think about iced tea and you can see the mind maps that someone created about about this
again different aspect I think about ice I think about tea I think about summer I think about
refreshing and so on and then the expansion of this mind map so you have lots of tools even free
tools that are available online that you can that you can download or that you can use online to
create these mind maps and against our good way to to explore a little bit what's in your mind
and you will say one idea which we go another and so on and sometime later on when you look
the linkage at the linkage between all of them you will find some so maybe interesting insight
on how you can combine eventually to concept or to ideas or to solution with each other's now
the next slide is a mind map about mind map so it's more or less my map guidelines or you
should go about drawing your mind map again I will let you pause on on this slide probably for
you to be able to see it but more or less you put your everything all your ideas down all your
ideas lens then later on I mean you use keywords to present these ideas you're not going to write
sentences just keywords that will present the idea and then later on you organize you cluster and
and so on so this mind map about my map so it's a meta mind map if you want helps to organize a
little bit or to explain the different steps to develop a mind map so again the central theme
could be anything it could be a problem the idea is looking at imagine a imagining a little
bit or be very imaginative in how you link this different concept with with each other's and and
you could use something maybe more stimulating at the center of your instead just using a world
you could use a picture or you could use I don't know a video or whatever and then look at what
what does it lead to sometimes as the use of a picture might be my lead you my introduces a bias
because I mean it represent physically something already so it's not abstract per se so this my
limit your ability to be creative and to explore further but in some cases this might be useful
now I'm gonna ask you to experiment a little bit drawing a mind map so I'm gonna give you a keyword
and then I'm gonna give you one minutes more or less you take a blank sheet of paper and then I
give you one minutes to draw a mind map related to the concept that I'm gonna present to you so
what I would like you to do is to develop a mind map around the world mouse okay so Mouse is at
the center of the mind map now I let you up to you to to explore further so I will give you one
minutes to do that don't think too much really write down everything that comes to your mind let
me just go through two levels at this stage don't go too deep in each level so what are all the
ideas or concepts that comes to your mind when you think about a mouse and then you expand it to
the next level so I give you one minutes ready go well I hope you you design a very nice mind map
so I don't know what you wrote unfortunately I cannot see it from here but mouse I mean you I'm
sure you you first thing that comes to your mind male star bindi the animals and maybe the computer
mouse and maybe Mickey Mouse so I don't know what came out to your mind but hopefully you were able
to to experience a little bit the use of a mind map and again that's a very very nice and very
powerful tool to start structuring a little bit you are your ideas and you can refine it again
and again so that's the same approach when you have a problem what are some of the first ideas
that can come to your mind in how to solve this problem you can do it individually and then later
on you can share it also among your group and each of the other member of the group can contribute
to this mind map to expand it to refine it to look at new a new connection new new avenues and
this you end up being a good very good starting point to try to look at what has the option
to solve you your problem now I will talk now about a little bit about Picasso and Pablo
Picasso which is a Spanish artist painter that I guess most of you my my known and and one of the
techniques that Picasso used to use was he used to feel himself more or less with this subject so
before starting to paint for understand something about about the green color it will you will
go and spend some time in the forest and emails himself in a green environment he will look at
a lot of things that are green and somehow to somehow feel himself with this with this idea
with this concept with whatever is trying to to paint about and then he will engage into this
creative painting or sculpture or or whatever I wanted to get involved with but there was this
initial phase phase of really being immersed into the theme or the context in which he
wanted to be creative about now there is a movie a French movie an old French movie which
was released in 1956 by a French filmmaker whose name is a leisure cruise oh and original screws
oh somehow recorded or challenged a little bit Picasso Picasso was already 74 years old and
he asked Picasso to somehow be able to paint 15 different artworks in a very very limited
amount of time so on the small part of this movie that I will show you now it's a five
minute challenge so Picasso was given five minutes to paint something and so the filmmaker
is recording Picasso painting so that's something which is quite interesting because we rarely
see the artist painting with easy output which is a final artwork but we rarely see the artist
painting and we will see the way that Picasso paint in this movie is quite interesting and the
evolution of of the fold and creativity also are quite interesting so the movie again is doesn't
last very long probably seven to eight minutes it's in French but you really doesn't matter in
which language it is I mean there is this a bit this interaction between picasso and unoriginal
crudos a guy with the pipes that you will see so the tea is a little bit it shows there all along
the way and and the filmmaker also somehow I mean kind of challenge and pusher bit Picasso makes
him things that he doesn't have any more time and the Picasso somehow beg for more time
and so on so I mean that some of the small thing you will miss but the core of the of this
movie here I was the essence of what I want you to get out of it it doesn't really matter in what
language it's really seeing the artist painting and evolution of his creativity move around the
movie okay so please sit down and enjoy the movie well I hope you enjoy this this movie it's quite
quite interesting to see how Picasso I mean start by drawing flowers and turns into fish and turn
into chicken and then turn into a head and then turn into Wow who knows what but anyway that's
that's quite interesting so for this movie you really did painted 15 artworks all these artworks
where somehow destructed at the end of the movie that was part of the deal so that's a shame
that they no longer exist I mean they were worth millions two days but I mean I think it
was quite a creative movie also per se and and and that's really amazing to see I mean the flow
of creativity of of Picasso really in practice and how his ideas evolve evolve over over time so
again I you want to do a metaphor with that is really I mean how I mean don't always get stuck
with one idea and one solution I mean get these ideas evolve somehow over time and don't always
get stuck on something keep exploring and this might lead you to something which end up being
much more creative to what you may have think your original idea was so again going back to the
Picasso approach try to collect as much material and about the topics about the problem that
you're trying to solve immerse yourself with fill yourself with this with this with these
ideas with this concept with this understanding it's a little bit like when the actor wants to
shoot a movie also I mean about about someone else you have to put themselves in the body in
the arrow of this of this person that they are representing in this in this movie and so they
spend also a lot of time also to study a little bit is who's these different people where was this
different personage where so again so you need to activate yourself and you cannot just activate
yourself suddenly out of the blue coding I mean to walk in the morning and at 10 o clock you
have a meeting and suddenly you're gonna be creative no it will never walk that way again
this emotion and this time which is required for you to really be in males with the topic
will really help you find some solution and another solution if you remember on module 1.2
we talked a little bit about this process with the work or the initial steps of Graham Wallace
that says that well step number one you prepare yourself so you collect background information
and and about about the topic and step number two which is very very important is this incubation
process so now that you have all these knowledge is information is these things in front of you
that you have been exposed to then your brain start to somehow organize things or make sense out
of it and then later on you go to the next stage which is the intimation which is really you can't
feel you can see that suddenly you're starting to feel some some avenues of solution but if you
skip the first two steps the preparation and the incubation it's very likely that you
will have problem with the intimation and the illumination later on or the illumination
might be very poor or not very very creative so again this is part of what we call this is one
of the techniques that is somehow associated with visual brainstorming again try to visualize your
ideas on paper it really helps you to make sense of them it's also easier to communicate them with
with other people you can do that by drawings but you can do that also for instance by using Legos
or using play-doh or anything you can physically or represent it if you don't want to do it in 2d
you can do it in three dimension and and again you will see that even yourself this with question
a lots of things that you didn't think about early on and that somehow by articulating on on
a drawing on a 3d representation will really help you to to I mean to understand and for instance
architects our are I mean always create mock-ups or small prototype for things that they do as
well as as designer and and again if they do that is because there is a value for them to really
fully understand and look at at put potential solution for different angle and for different
lenses and again it's an incremental process I mean you would always build on what you've
previously tried or thought about and the idea we would improve along the way again I mean a lot
of this concept and content that I presented to you come from this book from michaelmi Michalka
which is called cracking creativity so you can learn much more about this technique or
so for his book thank you for watching