ABSTRACT

Learning to think and act creatively is a requisite fundamental aspect of design education for architectural and interior design as well as industrial and graphic design. Development of creative capacities must be encountered early in design education for beginning students to become self-actualized as skillful designers.

With chapters written by beginning design instructors, Developing Creative Thinking in Beginning Design addresses issues that contribute to deficiencies in teaching creativity in contemporary beginning design programs. Where traditional pedagogies displace creative thinking by placing conceptual abstractions above direct experiential engagement, the approaches presented in this book set forth alternative pedagogies that mitigate student fears and misconceptions to reveal the potency of authentic encounters for initiating creative transformational development.

These chapters challenge design pedagogy to address such issues as the spatial body, phenomenological thinking, making as process, direct material engagement and its temporal challenges, creative decision making and the wickedness of design, and the openness of the creative design problem. In doing so, this book sets out to give greater depth to first design experiences and more effectively enable the breadth and depth of the teacher–student relationship as a means of helping your students develop the capacity for long-term self-transformation.

chapter |26 pages

Introduction

part I|24 pages

Creative Traditions in the Contemporary Design Educational Context

chapter Chapter 1|10 pages

Beginning Design

Seven Points

chapter Chapter 2|12 pages

Blurry Target

part II|56 pages

Transformative Development through Learning Creativity

chapter Chapter 3|12 pages

The Touch of Hands and the Awakening of Sensibility

A Creative Thought at the Beginning Level in Architecture

chapter Chapter 5|16 pages

Threshold of Uncertainty and Design Education

chapter Chapter 6|17 pages

Zen and/in Beginning Design Education

part III|56 pages

Creative Decision Making, Uncertainty, Failure, and Openness

chapter Chapter 8|12 pages

A Temporal Attitude

chapter Chapter 9|13 pages

Dashed Hopes

Lessons in the Failure of Best Intentions

chapter Chapter 10|15 pages

The Open Project

Field Notes for an Investigation

part IV|50 pages

Embodied and Phenomenological Approaches in Beginning Design

chapter Chapter 12|15 pages

Violet Light Under a Saffron Sky

Creativity, Phenomenology, and Speculative Realism in Beginning Design 1

chapter Chapter 13|14 pages

In the Making

Creative Thinking in the Architectural Design Studio

part V|54 pages

Creativity and Making

chapter Chapter 14|10 pages

Where Do Ideas Come From?

A Hands-On Strategy for Designing and Building Architecture 1

chapter Chapter 15|14 pages

Oculata Manus

On the Role of the Body in the Making of Creative Minds

chapter Chapter 16|17 pages

DESIGN-BUILD Build/Design 1

An Inquiry-Based Approach to Teaching Beginning Design Students

chapter Chapter 17|11 pages

Think>Make and Make/Think

Beginning Steps in Architectural Design