Tuesday 15 April 2008

Problem solving is the highest level of creativity

the movie has nothing to do with the title...haha...its just a movie which my senior did for a architect dinner bash...JOEL CHECK IT OUT! THIS WAS THE VIDEO I I TOLD U ABOUT!!

anyway...the title is the exact words my lecturer told me during a crit session for our works...architecture is about that in general...problem solving. At the end of the day its not about us designing some weird cool design of a building, but instead we design to fix the problem ranging from the culture of the place, the felling of the space, the construction, technicality, social, economical, political, environmental, function....so much more to think about (getting grey hair bcoz of this...sigh)

but like my lecturer said its not how creative we design, its how creative we are in solving the given problem....God is the most creative being we can ever know, he solved the greatest problem we created =)

2 comments:

KimKu said...

really cute video..was laughing especially during "transformation". the thing is that i was watching a similar cartoon show this morning(about tranformation)..

Unknown said...

There is definitely an art to Creative Problem Solving. CPS is also known as the Osborn-Parnes model of creative problem solving process. It's actually been around for over 50 years and it's been proven to work time and again.

Up until recently it's pretty much been a well-kept secret among marketing types in the Fortune 1000, but small business people and entrepreneurs would find creative problem solving skills incredibly helpful.

There's a guy by the name of Gregg Fraley who has a book about CPS. His book is written in such a way as to be a page-turning novel with a story, while teaching real concepts that work to develop better business and life skills. Most business books put me right to sleep but as a story has been written in to this one it keeps you interested with situations you can relate to while you learn.