Thursday, 19 November 2015

How to have an Idea

In this lecture, we learnt various ways to generate ideas, and how to evaluate and annotate our work in the best way.

"The generation, development and transformation of ideas that are novel and useful for solving a problem= creativity."
This is a simple way to remind yourself to develop your work/research to help stay creative and produce a better final outcome.

I found this lecture very useful, as usually I only use mind maps to generate ideas. This helped me to realise that changing the structure/layout helps me to generate more creative/interesting ideas, as it allows you to look at it from a different angle.

DISCOVER
DEFINE
DEVELOP
DELIVER

After this lecture, I have found myself referring back to this. It really helps when annotating my research, especially artist research. Now, I would usually Discover an artist off of Pinterest, then Define what I like about the artist and their work, then I would carry on to find similar artists to allow my work to Develop. Finally, it helps me to Deliver a good understanding of where my research will lead to.


I really like to question myself when doing research, I find it helps me to improve my work, as it helps me to look at my work from a different angle/ point of view. It also helps when I create some experiments, I'm constantly looking to develop my pieces, so I find myself writing questioning the piece to see how I can improve, does it have meaning, what can I do to make it unique?

When making lists, I realise it can be daunting to look at a long list of words. So, this lecture helped me to realise that there are other ways to create lists which make them easier to read and look through.
-Location
-Alphabetical
-Time
-Category
-Hierachy