Ideation: Idea Generation

3 units

Through collaboration and conversations with classmates, readings on the topic, and group exercises, this course will help students identify their creative strengths and weaknesses, encourage artistic experimentation of new ideas, establish methods of design thinking and make it clear that collaboration amongst varied backgrounds and disciplines is the key to coming up with creative solutions for complex problems. The course relies heavily on both intentional and serendipitous collisions of ideas with students in groups practicing collaborative projects together. This course is UNUSUAL in that it expects you to study other creatives as well as practice what they espouse. This course encourages crazy ideas, stupid questions, and failed attempts at perfection.