= LEONG LI JING =
Creative Thinking Skills (ARC30104)
This module will equip students with theory and techniques that will help them understand the range of thinking abilities and how enhancing these can result in a higher quality of design work. Students are encouraged to explore or broaden their own ideas and thought processes with techniques such as mindmapping; expand, twist or synthesize ideas with techniques such as random association; and translate their ideas into a tangible form which can be interactive, presentable, entertaining or a form of visual design statement. They will also learn techniques to manage and develop ideas in collaborative efforts or as design teams, in all its advantages.
This is an introduction project exploring creativity which they will need to extract information from a particular topic/object/movie/song given to them. They will need to discuss through brainstorming session on how to translate their idea and research using mind maps, doodles and story-boards. This video will be in the form of an Ad Campaign or a Short Movie This project aims for students to work as a team to generate ideas and allow them to express their creativity through effective visual communication.
The aim of the idea journal is as a medium for students to express, record ideas, methods, techniques and process of generating ideas. Students will also be given a topic to be placed in the sketch journal as an ongoing ideation process. Mind maps, sketches, scribbles, magazine/paper cuts are examples of items that will be placed in the Idea Journal.
The aim of the Final Project will be a review that illustrates the entire topic learned in this module which will encourage problem solving, critical thinking and creative thinking through series of exploration, innovation and creation process. The Final Project will concentrate on the development of ideas through series of sketches, mind maps and diagrams in creating a game board.