Exploring the impact of surrounding factors on design imagination

• Autores: Min-Wei Hsu, Tsai-Yun Lo, K.C. Liang, Wi-Kuan Lin, Wen-hao Yang
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 30, no. Extra 2, 2014, págs. 319-325
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Designing is a problem-solving process, which the professional designers need for higher imagination and creativity to carry on theproblem-solving. In the research, we aim to develop a training program which helps designers to enhance the mechanism ofimagination during industrial designing. First, imagination and creativity theories, design cognition and thinking, design methodsand techniques are being explored by way of a literature survey in order to gain a deeper understanding of the structure andmechanism of human imagination. Research methods for design thinking, the pattern of imagination, the factors that affect theimagination, and developing techniques and teaching methods for imagination, have then been inducted for further studies. Wethen explored the forty international professional designers using secondary interview data. The data was analyzed based on theabstract and concrete, the activities, location, etc., the source of imaginative inspiration for the designers were categorized. Theresults showed that two designers using an abstract way of generating an imagination and inspiration mode accounted for 58%,using concrete objects to achieve the source of inspiration accounts for 42%. Indoor activities accounted for 64% inspiration of thefactors of environmental stimulation, 36% were outdoor activities. Therefore, for the learning strategy, we conclude that enhancingthe cognitive and experience-driven skills to gain insights from a variety of life experiences, expands the implicit design knowledgefor the cognitive activities to trigger the imagination in the design thinking of designing.