Week 8 - Analogical Thinking Pt 2

Week 8 Exercise

Condense all that you have gathered through your learning process in brainstorming and mind mapping into an idea for a found image of your choice. (Inspired by nature or any life form)

Learning Process 

For the past 8 weeks, I have learnt how to break the rules, brainstorm, mind-map, thinking laterally and analogically. These strategies are very useful as it had undeniably helped me to generate greater ideas. I will try apply these knowledge for as long as I can. 

A found image inspired by nature

I found this image on Google. This is actually a table and its stand is inspired by the roots of the trees. I really like the concept behind this and thought of other functional goods that can be created.

Here are 3 items that I have sketched out.

A chair with roots as its stand.

Clothing rack with roots as its hooked.

Roots shelf

Out of 5 sketches, I only picked 3 of them as the other 2 weren't as interesting.

From these past few weeks, I have learnt a lot; ways to reflect, thinking tools etc. I started to reflect and think more frequently than before which had helped me to generate lots of fresh new ideas. For example, when I first saw the image of the table with its stand inspired by the roots of the trees, I started to apply the thinking tools to come up with more fixtures/furnitures that could also be inspired by the roots. Moreover, I had also applied these thinking tools into my school work. These thinking tools had been a great help to me.