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Name: Creative Acts for Curious People
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Author: Sarah Stein Greenberg

Sarah Stein Greenberg

How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional Ways

4.4 (231 Bewertungen)

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Worum geht es in Creative Acts for Curious People?

Creative Acts for Curious People (2021) collects insights about creativity and design taught in the classrooms of Stanford’s renowned Hasso Plattner School of Design, also known as the d.school. In addition to essays about the mindset and skills required for creative action, it offers over 80 practical exercises used by instructors from dozens of fields including medicine, education, and nonprofit to help improve your ability to solve problems, whether personal or on a global scale.

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What’s in it for me? Boost your creativity and confidence using tools taught at Stanford’s d.school.

What comes to mind when you hear the word design? You may be thinking of a particular profession or field, but actually, anyone can be a designer.

At Stanford’s d.school, design is taught as a creative approach to solving problems, with the ultimate goal of improving people's lives. If you’ve ever been curious about learning about systems, or dreamed about how the world could work differently, you were thinking about design.

In the following blinks, you’ll learn how to apply some of the insights and tools about design and creativity taught at the world-renowned design institute. Using assignments from the school’s history, you’ll also refine your ability to address complex challenges in your company, community, or even at home.

In these blinks, you’ll find out

why not knowing which problem you want to focus on propels creative impact;
how a zombie apocalypse can help foster trust in teams; and
why dips in productivity are actually good for learning.

Design is a problem-solving approach involving observation, thinking, feeling, and action.

Imagine going to the gym every day – but each day, you only work out one side of your body. After a few weeks, one side is strong and muscly, while the other side stays weak. This may sound absurd, but it’s happening in educational training.

In school, most students are taught to focus on two of the skills necessary for creativity; thinking and observing. And not so much on the other two; feeling and doing. But just as you need to work out your full body for balanced physical strength, you need more than one set of skills to have impactful creative action.

That’s why Stanford University’s d.school is dedicated to instructing students on how to integrate all of their creative skill sets into the problem-solving process.

The key message here is: Design is a problem-solving approach involving observation, thinking, feeling, and action.

Every year thousands of people take to the d.school’s classrooms to be taught by faculty working in fields from medicine to education and philanthropy. They explore unconventional tools for learning and how to think like a designer.

The d.school views design as a dance between learning and problem-solving to improve people's lives. Its mission is to teach students how to develop completely novel solutions to complex problems. This way of thinking about design was pioneered by the Hungarian painter László Moholy-Nagy in the 1940s, who viewed design as an “attitude of resourcefulness and inventiveness.”

These days, in an era marked by constant flux, learning to be resourceful and inventive is more important than ever. As the world continues to adapt to unprecedented technologies, climate change, and more recently, a global pandemic, environments are constantly shifting.

This means you’re constantly relearning the world around you, and redesigning your life accordingly. Some have to reshape their family’s daily routine, while others have to reframe a whole educational system. No matter the scope or size of your challenge, once you tune into how your different abilities come together, you’ll have more creative confidence.

Just remember that none of the skills required for creative action – thinking, learning, doing, and feeling – occur entirely separately from one another. In the next blinks, you’ll find out about some of the d.school’s methods for strengthening all of your creative muscles together.

Don’t stay fixated on the problem you’re trying to solve.

Have you ever had to solve a problem without knowing what the outcome would be? Maybe you had to find an apartment in a new town or manage a team after your first promotion. Whatever the case, you probably felt a mix of excitement and nervousness.

When you’re not an expert on a given topic, the challenge can feel difficult. But actually, design is all about embracing improvisation.

Cultivate patience to improve your observation skills.

Imagine you’re on a high-speed train. You look out the window and all you can see is a blur rushing by. But as the train slows down, you start to notice what’s outside. The trees in the distance, graffiti on the walls, people standing on a platform.

Similarly, modern life is so fast-paced and full of distractions that it’s easy to completely miss one’s surroundings. But observing the world around you is a key principle of design – and to get good at observing, you need to slow down.

Expand the focus of your research during data analysis.

Think of your last holiday somewhere new. What did you take home with you? Did you buy a souvenir or postcard? You probably took photos and certainly collected your own mental impressions.

But during your trip, you were too busy enjoying the sights to reflect on all of these mementos. They’re for after you get home, when you can digest everything that you missed in the moment.

To understand the full impact of your project, break down its context.

Look at your smartphone for a second. How would you describe it: a product, an experience, or something else?

On one hand, it is a physically designed product that you can hold in your hand. But it also contains an invisible operating system that handles streams of data every day. That’s another layer. Yet another layer is how the smartphone impacts society, for example, how it’s led to the emergence of digital fatigue.

Get a taste of how you work by engaging in active experimentation.

Have you ever seen a toddler intentionally knock over a bowl of food, over and over again? To you, it’s a mess. But to the toddler, it’s simply a learning experiment.

The first time she knocks it, she may be investigating the force of gravity. The second time, she may be conducting a psychological experiment to learn what the reaction of onlookers will be. The third time, it may be just to test her agency.

Build trust and connection in your team by using warm-up sequences.

Have you ever been in a group setting, pitched an idea, and had someone shut it down immediately? Chances are, your self-confidence took a hit. When that happens, even if you come up with other ideas you want to share, you don’t want to feel stupid again, so you keep it to yourself.

In situations where people feel psychologically unsafe in this way, creativity suffers. On the flip side, when you’re designing as part of a team, amazing results can be achieved when everyone feels safe to use their voice.

Productive struggle usually happens right before the creative breakthrough.

So you’ve launched a creative project, brimming with excitement. But halfway through, something happens. Seemingly out of nowhere, you’re full of self-doubt. Meanwhile, your initial excitement starts to dim, and the work feels boring. You were so committed to this project but suddenly, you’re not sure if you can carry on.

Creativity can be a joyful experience, but with the highs come the lows. As it happens, it’s inevitable that one part of your creative process will feel terrible – this is what the author calls “productive struggle.”

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Über den Autor

Sarah Stein Greenberg is the executive director of the Stanford d.school and a public speaker on design, business, and education. She also serves as a trustee for the global conservation organization Rare.

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