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Conference DAY 1
When we are trying to enhance our students’ creativity, the educational setup should address those issues. Creativity is something to be achieved with care and a systematic approach. Something that has to be educated and requires a lot of guidance for students to achieve creativity. I hope students will not misunderstand that by not following any rules, not doing things systematically will bring them to creativity, it will take them to the opposite direction. Everybody can be creative even though they do not feel so. According to Carl Jung, everybody can be creative. But the way an individual is creative may be different to the other s. Being able to understand and embrace the diversity is impor tant. In order to achieve a good design by oneself, it is going to come from a good collaboration, from addressing different viewpoints, by looking at different experience values for example. In our education system, we want to allow students to learn how to play together with people who have the opposite viewpoints than themselves; how to negotiate with them, how to persuade them. That would be impor tant for their mindsets, because in reality, we live with others.
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To achieve creativity, it is said that you have to think out of the box, with the existence of this system, will it still allow people to think out of the box? It has two directions. Often when you design, you may want to use your previous design experiences. In a way, if you have abundant experience, it will help you to generate many creative solutions. That means creativity involves drawing from the existing experience and putting it in a new frame. In another case, design creativity involves nice arrangements of things. You want to think differently within a cer tain systematic frame, not coming out of nowhere. I think that is what our education should provide. That is basically based on our design creativity research. Some of the discussions that we have, confidence is necessary in creativity, but not with non-conformity. You would better have to be different, to stand out, but have to be confident to frame yourself in a certain direction. That is the key part of being creative. Trying to learn to design confidently, that could lead to creativity.
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