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9. Final Thoughts & Debrief
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Welcome & Why Are We Doing This?
06:57 2Zombie Challenge 1: Brainstorm Session
11:18 3Zombie Challenge 1: Prototype Session
17:25 4Zombie Challenge 1: Present Results
11:00 5Zombie Challenge 2: Brainstorm & Prototype
21:17 6Zombie Challenge 2: Present Results
05:29 7Zombie Challenge 3: Brainstorm & Prototype
13:22 8Zombie Challenge 3: Present Results
05:30Lesson Info
Final Thoughts & Debrief
So you guys made some amazing things, so I encourage you to keep them, obviously. So what? What? Anything that comes up here, we'll obviously be taken away. But these are really I mean, these are just awesome. I mean, craftsmanship. I think this this is what the This is the thing right here. Right. Washboard. Exactly. Oh, Grandma Little. Did you know all your furniture? Just But I don't know. I don't know if this if this worked or not, but it was so much fun trying to escape the zombie apocalypse. So, um Okay. Yeah. So way learn. Um, okay. I have a quick question. OK, so now each of these, obviously, they're very different challenges I'm interested to hear. What did you find different about the process For each challenge we followed the same process wheel for each one. Um, they maybe there were different speeds for each challenge. But was there something in your group that changed as we were through as we went from exercise to exercise, the sort of conceptual, um, step almost just got ...
skipped because we were familiar with the materials that we had. Um, so we just went straight to prototyping Yeah, let's get Did anyone else find that as well? Way had similar thing of going straight to prototyping, but it was kind of along the lines of like, weeds worked with each other by multiple times by we got by the time we got to the last challenge. So, like, we kind of just split up and just started working like we already knew what we were doing. And everybody just completed a task and just move forward. Yeah, yeah. So it's like you did these things, but some of them were like this long and some over this long, So that's cool. What about you guys back there? Did you guys find any any change, fundamental changes? He was going to say that the kind of decision to go with one direction happened a lot more quickly. In a very beginning, we kind of tried out ideas, and we weren't really sure, Like, who's do is jump on or how soon do you just jump on it? And it feels like as we went kind of idea what common? Just as a group, we be like, Yes, that's it. Let's go right. You get to know each other And I think this was kind of obviously you can set up all these different metaphors and how this process would be in real life. I'm interested to hear what you guys think. This is a good metaphor for, I mean, these situations that maybe that you've I happened upon in worker at home that it's once you know people. Things kind of work better when you don't know people. Things have to be sort of. You have to figure things out. Obviously, if you know the material that you're working with, that's something that changes a lot. Um, And as you work through different scenarios with the same same materials, obviously you understand the characteristics of what you're working with, so things could be faster. What? Not So I think I just answered the question I asked you. How about that? Okay, so, um, any last thoughts with this fun? Did you have a good time? Okay, great. My favorite thing that I took away today just wanna say it was becoming unprepared because I know here accretive live. We have a lot of preparation goes into what we dio. But then inherently at the last second, there's a lot of things they're throwing to us at the last second, right? So this for me really helped. I know that you can have fun with those moments. Thank you for bringing us back to reality out. That's true. So it's It's one of those things. So the my favorite of the three things the being unprepared is really a key aspect of the creative process just to kind of bring it back to the whole thing. Um, and how we are comfortable with those unprepared bits is really key for us to be able to capture awesome ideas and cool ideas. If we freak out all the time, we're stopping the thinking process, and we're just reacting instead of acting. So a lot of times, we're missing the whole fleet of awesome opportunities to be creative, obviously. So, yeah. Thank you for that. Do you have anything to add to that really quickly? Yeah. I'm seeing how I can take this type of thinking into something more conceptual. Um, and not so physical. A physical results. Right? So if you're doing this by yourself, I know you said earlier that you need to be able to share feedback with others, but in the in the earlier stages. The brainstorm. A 98 stage. If you're by yourself, how can you think outside the box when you're still kind of stuck just by yourself? It's true. And there. And that's another class. No, but it's true. I mean, you do have these, you know, and there's all sorts of things I'm blocking yourself, and there's a lot of exercises that you can do for that. But the thing about doing brainstorming by yourself is to write and to give yourself the permission to just settle and make lists. And I think that that's one of the things that's that's important because, ah, lot of times I know with my own students in art school, you're so rushed you're under the gun and you immediately go to the first or maybe even the second thing that you thought about. And then as you're working, you're like, Oh, this sucks and it's not helping me, And it's not working out, you know, But you're stuck with it, and you just kind of keep pushing it to fruition. And then so in this point here and brainstorming by yourself, making list, giving yourself the permission is a sort of chill with things is really important. And that's like a good unblocking thing. Sometimes you have to make a list, you have to step away from it for a while and then you come back and you re read it and you're like, Oh, snap, here's another one. Boom, boom, boom, boom. And then you have more of, ah, A list to choose something cool about my even getting close to what you asked. Okay, But then when it comes around to the feedback when your as an individual, this is where I helped, even if they're people that you aren't necessarily working with. And I tell my students this a lot because sometimes you get into this sort proprietary scenario where it's like, this is my thing, I'm going to do it. I don't want to show anybody until I'm presenting it, but if you kind of let that go and bring people into the process, they can help you maybe coming up some other ideas that might bring you back around to the brainstorming process. So is a different experience, obviously working if you if you process it individually than as a group. But those things kind of helped me and also helps my students. But giving them the permission to do it is the biggest problem. Because they're just like, no, man. I don't want to give any my ideas away, and I'm gonna keep like this, But soon as you open it up, it was like, Wow, I'm all sudden, huge with ideas. Anything else is even have that kind of experience who went to art school day. We go to art school in here. Okay, that was a ridiculous question. I don't know. I asked, um uh okay, so, um, but I do. I do teach process for undergrad and grad, and it's really everybody gets this or like a A. But the big thing is the permission peace and one of the things that I've come to to, uh, to understand that you can't get here until you give yourself the permission to actually utilize the process like that. Because if you don't have permission, you're not gonna be a feel that you could be curious. And then without that curiosity, you're not gonna be able to innovate. So it's permission, curiosity, innovation, or go this way. Permission curiosity, innovation. So, you know, you could see that work culture that our permissive or not or home cultures that are permissive or not. So giving yourself permission is the big take away. I should have put that down Is number four collaboration being cool with the UN prepared and, um, design thinking and giving yourself the permission. So this is me. If you want to learn any more about what Ideo this program as well as other workshops that I do for little kids and adults, You could go there. That's my big plug. That's all I got. Guys. Thank you very much. Give yourselves another round of a father.
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Jimmy B
Really enjoyed this class. Seeing the way each team changed at each stage was really interesting. Rather than learning about a particular thing like design, this class is more about learning how to think about problems and solutions in a different way.
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