Week 1 - Summary of Tim Brown: Tales of creativity and play & A Picture a Day

Here is the video of Tim Brown : Tales of creativity and play

Introduction

As we got older, we feared the judgement of our peers which causes us to be conservative in our thinking. That is why many creative companies created wacky and playful environment so that employees feel relaxed and comfortable to share their ideas freely with everyone.

Exploration

Openness is the beginning of exploratory play. For example, if I had a plastic bag, my nephew would definitely play with it such as putting it on his head as a hat. However, adults tend to categorize new situation very quickly. Furthermore, the adult’s desire to be original was what limits them from exploring more possibilities in their ideas. Thus, that is why one should defer judgement and go for quantity.

Building

Construction play is both playful and a powerful way to learn. When it is carried out by designers, this behaviour is “thinking with your hands”- involves making multiple, low-resolution prototypes very quickly. For example, a designer uses architectural paper prototype to show what he wants the design of the building to be like.  Thus, by building prototypes we can test our ideas with our consumers in a much faster way than describing through words.

Role-Play

Designing service and interaction, one needs to imagine how the experience might felt and recognise the flaws in the design through acting. For children, they followed social scripts and learned the rules of social interaction while adults acted out the solutions which helps them prove whether it will succeed and for designers, they had to project themselves in the experience so as to understand what it felt like.  For example, if I wanted to feel how is it like to be a cancer patient, shaving all my hair allows me to feel the emotions they felt before.Thus, the idea of role-playing is both an empathy tool as well as a tool for prototyping experiences. 

Conclusion

Play is not anarchy- rules of how to play and when to play. It is important to transition ourselves in and out of play through different experience using this generative mode - includes divergence and convergence.  Lastly, we need to have trust to play and trust to be creative.

A Picture a Day

One word - Dogs. Who doesn't love dogs? The soft cotton material kept my feet comfortable so every step I walk felt like I am a little higher from the ground. 

Pizza Hut with friends. Cheese, ham, pineapple, all the goodness is in there so what's more can ypu ask for ? 

On the way home, my bus always pass by here. And of course it looks nice if not I wouldn't take a photo. 

A coffee a day keeps my mind awaked. 

Though it kept me awake but if I am too tired, I could also fall asleep. It's too bad because life is not a wish granting factory.

Any human eyes can see that this is food and to elaborate more it is nonya curry. It's not just any other nonya curry it's an aromatic and savory nonya curry. Just one spoon of this curry, I felt like I had just tasted half of heaven.

This is call perks of waking up early so maybe 9am class is not too bad after all. Beautiful sky with vivid ombre shades of pink, purple, orange and yellow . 

When I have Lady Luck on my hand, I find good food like this. It is located at orchard and the architecture is shape artistically as a cottage. Its large meatballs and large portion is definitely a good place that everyone should go.