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Principles of Furniture & Joinery Design

Principles of Furniture & Joinery Design. More Lateral Thinking Tools. Creative Pause. When you start thinking your brain follows a certain direction or flow. Introducing a pause can interrupt this flow. Change your activity.

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Principles of Furniture & Joinery Design

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  1. Principles of Furniture & Joinery Design More Lateral Thinking Tools

  2. Creative Pause When you start thinking your brain follows a certain direction or flow. Introducing a pause can interrupt this flow. Change your activity. You focus on something else and suddenly your train of thought moves off in a different direction. You create a new idea! Jennifer Byrne 2013

  3. Motivation Motivation Motivation and creation go hand in hand. You can be motivated to become creative or your creation can motivate you to carry on. Motivation on creativity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JUFjTOM32g&feature=related Jennifer Byrne 2013

  4. Design an expandable table Previous Slide from 1st presentation Random words Chair Colourful, circular, character based. Height, happy, hippy. Aluminium, automatic, alien. Irregular shape, Iridescent, Irish Red, revolving, Rocco style. Expand on each of the words to see what comes into your mind Revolving, shiny aluminium, irregular shape, like an alien head. Jennifer Byrne 2013

  5. Design an expandable table Random Input If you start from a different viewpoint you will get completely different ideas. Purpose is to get new ideas not linked to old ones. These ideas are provocations that may change your direction of thinking. Jennifer Byrne 2013

  6. Plus, Minus & Interesting PMI Problem: Client wants you to design a kitchen but he does not want wooden hinged doors. Solution: 3 mins to list all the Plus - Positives No doors would allow easy access. Know exactly what’s in the presses. Cut down on costs. Cut down on time/labour. Other Jennifer Byrne 2013

  7. Plus, Minus & Interesting 3 mins to list all the Minuses - Negatives No doors to stop all the dust getting into presses. Plates, cups & utensils would be very dirty and dusty. Very unhygienic for open packs of food. Very dangerous for small children and pets. Nosey visitors would see inside your presses. Temptation to keep eating. Other Jennifer Byrne 2013

  8. Plus, Minus & Interesting 3 mins to list all the Interesting Looking at both columns, come up with ideas to tackle these problems. Glass doors, maybe opaque. Sliding doors. Storage boxes fitting inside presses. Fit presses with drawers. Cover with cloth, material. Get more precise information. Find out from client why he doesn’t want hinged doors Perhaps he is in a wheelchair and can’t manage hinged doors? Jennifer Byrne 2013

  9. References Motivation on creativity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JUFjTOM32g&feature=related De Bono, E.(1996) Serious Creativity. Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas. London. Harper Collins. Jennifer Byrne 2013

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