Saturday, January 16, 2010
As promised, I've uploaded my sketches from our very first lecture assignment, AND changed my learning journal layout!
Class Assignment A.
Sketch (design) a machine/device that enhances your creativity 100 times. Honestly, I was rather taken aback by the first lecture assignment, as I didn't expect to have to conceptualise and sketch out a design like this during our first introductory lecture to the module. ^_^" So while everyone else was proficiently sketching out professional looking devices, I only managed to come up with these doodles:
The Creative Juicer
Device Components.
Device Sketch.
ConceptSince we know that juices come from fruits, I assume that creative juices must flow from freshly squeezed fruits as well! :)
I wanted to play with the concept of "creative juices", knowing fully well that such "juices", even if they exist, cannot possibly come from fruits. ^_^"
My concept stems from my belief that creativity is something that's really hard to pin down and define. I find it personally very difficult to try and define what makes a person creative. Listing the aspects of a creative person might help, but it will not help in defining creativity itself, because creativity is more than just aspects.
Many people conceptualised devices that enhanced eyesight and perceptiveness, intelligence, sense of hearing/smell and so on. While I found many of these ideas and designs brilliant, I didn't want my device to be like that. Creativity isn't just perceptiveness, or intelligence, or the heightened use of one's senses, or the summation of all these traits. (although creative people often have enhanced perceptiveness, intelligence, observational skills and better use of their senses) The definition of creativity is thus just simply too hard to pinpoint, or break down into explanable components.
This is why I chose to let creativity be contained in something like a fruit. So that its mysterious, abstract nature can still be contained within that mysterious (albeit fictional) little fruit. :)
Hope you found my device interesting and *ahem* creative enough. ^_^"
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