Why should the artists of 1920′s Paris have all the fun? Exquisite Corpse is an exercise in creativity they fashioned that we can enjoy and learn from today!
Draw, pass, draw, pass. You get a small snippet of your co-creator’s drawings to spark inspiration and build on. Resulting in a radical new thing that broadens perspectives and understanding of the definition of ‘body’.Or refine the exercise to define a product. In each third of your paper have a prompt “What are ways to address this [need, feature, use case, etc].” Write and sketch your idea. Pass to the next person and repeat. When you review the Frakenstein-esque products focus on the juxtaposition of how different people approached the problem. Refine the concepts and slowly shape the radical into the aspirational.At Redshift, we went for full creative release, using the same mark-making tools to strike a balance between order and chaos.
A sampling of our findings: three instances of written text, six human faces, three sets of stars, two cats, two flowers, sixteen individual feet, three sets of tentacles, four non-representational beings, seven expanses of ground, four disembodied eyes, and two snails.