Everyone can draw... and everyone who wants to generate creative ideas and solve complex problems SHOULD draw. A 2-hour workshop for international students in the Design Thinking course at the Bauhaus Summer School in Weimar, 2017 (led by Carolin Scheffler and Julius Falk).
3. why do I draw?
Externalize and clarify ideas
Communicate with others
Activate my right brain: creativity + stress relief
Painless social networking for introverts
41. – Sunni Brown, author of Doodle Revolution
“Doodling is an act of
cognition”
42. Your Brain’s Two Modes
Sequential
Reductive
Analytical
Convergent
All-at-once
Holistic
Intuitive
Divergent
Learn more: Betty Edwards, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Rudolf Arnheim, Visual Thinking
43. 2 Kinds of “Visual Thinking”
Object Thinking Spatial Thinking
– Kozhevnikov et al., 2010
51. Solve A Challenge
No talking!
Write the challenge across the top of the paper – but
other than that, you can’t write words
Present to the group after 5 minutes
5 minutes working
Design a way to make moving to a new
house/apartment less stressful.
52. what can you do next?
carry a notebook everywhere!
draw 10 things over the weekend
if you don’t like how something looks, draw it at least 3
more times
read some books & follow people whose work you like