Creativity

Title: Clay exercise
Description: Break down barriers, think differently, allow crazy ideas, expanding all ideas, work on the ideas of others
Goal: Open up, willingness & chutzpah for design breath, ideas in order to allow audacious thinking

Exercise:

  1. Make groups of 4-6
  2. Make sure all students have a piece of clay
  3. Give the students the question/assignment: "Make something that will ..." (e.g. .. make it easier to eat an apple, .. help you drink)
  4. Set a timer for 3 minutes and have the students come up with a solution for the question asked.

Students:
  1. Based on the suggested activity, draw different, crazy, stupid, unrealistic/realistic, futuristic, sciencefistic etc. different solutions to the activity/problem
  2. Come up with as many as possible within the time frame
  3. When the time is up, everyone tell about one idea at the time
  4. Hopefully a lot of funny and crazy ideas will have risen