Creating a concept for the “worklivingroom” out of the concept “water”
What I appreciated in the module of Creative thinking and creation methods was that the task wasn’t based on a room and its functions from the very beginning. We had a different approach: Words. At first we would analyse one word and then elaborate a concept from there (in our case properties of water). Then we would integrate that concept into a new one. If our base would have been a room, we would have already been limited by 4 walls.
For this task I worked together with @iddp-noah. After brainstorming and mindmapping (which is a lot more fun doing it on a window by the way) we created a room that combined a stone masonry with a livingroom. The idea was to have a waterfall inside a grotto as the main and most obvious part in the room which acts as the source of energy for everything. The idea developed itself a bit further until we ended up with a room and a bundle of water and electric pipes hanging from the middle of the ceiling as the life spending/central energy source. This concept we tried to visualize in a model (see image 2).
Reflection
Sometimes I get too excited when I have multiple ideas. Way too often I then want to point out all kinds of aspects that are connected to it and that are, in that moment, valuable in my eyes. There are just too many ways to interpret stuff. Therefore I have to learn, how to focus on certain things and get my scatterbrained syndrome under control. Otherwise it will keep me distracted of stuff I actually want communicate.
Idea concentration
how to show the main idea —> cut off piece by piece of the concept I created up to that point (get rid of the unnecessary stuff) to find the core of the idea
The idea has to function in different scales
Idea communication
Ask myself, what is the main topic, find the root and talk about that
Don’t bring up additional stuff that just makes it more complex and unnecessary to understand the core idea.
