Week 11-Creative Thinking

The Challenge for this weeks class was to explore creative thinking and to come to a personal definition of what it means to think creatively. I, here, have provided my own definition of creative thinking. 

To think creatively is to break through the boundaries of conformity, to depart from those black and white conservatives in their crisp, grey suits, and to set sail on a voyage, of mystery, absurdity, and imagination. To venture, into waters not yet explored, those places that we have not yet travelled, and hence, to step out of our comfort zones, out of our cushy computer chairs where imagination sits still and is dead, and to breath in the creativity of the world, the vibrant cultures, the unique characters, the contrast of the urban sounds with the still, eery silences, the awakened day, with the slumbered night. For it is only by stepping out of our familiarity and into a new world that we can breathe in imagination and broaden the corners of our mind. To the creative person, the world is both full of colour, and in black and white, life is both simple and quite complicated,  we can never achieve perfection in our work, but we most certainly experience disasters, the world is round, and the world is flat, and if we decide to go to the utmost ridiculous, it may as well as be triangle. The possibilities are endless and there is never only one way at looking at something, and depending on our mood, reality distorts itself and changes, even when we mean it not to. For the creative mind there is nothing absurd about melting clocks, or leaning structures,   or men hacking off their limbs in front of a disturbed and shocked crowd, for it is the air that that person breathes, and his or her way of relating to the world, and such a strange idea is a brilliant one… is it not? 

Designs that I find inspirational for creative thinking: