Ideation & Conceptual design – Page 3

6-3-5 Method

15-25, 25+, Amount of people, Collaborative team setting, Duration, Engineering areas, Group, Group or individual activity, Half an hour or less, Ideation & Conceptual design, Practice-based, Theory-based, Type of activity, Type of class, Up to 15 / By ticon_team

The 6 (x) -3-5 is a group-work creativity method that is functional as a brain-writing activity.

Reframing Matrix

15-25, Amount of people, Analysis & problem definition, Between half an hour and one hour, Collaborative team setting, Duration, Engineering areas, Group, Group or individual activity, Ideation & Conceptual design, Individual, Self-work by students, Type of activity, Type of class, Undetermined, Up to 15 / By ticon_team

The Reframing Matrix technique helps to overcome cognitive biases in ideation and problem analysis by enabling the students to look at a problem from other than their usual perspective.

Taking a Picture

15-25, 25+, Amount of people, Analysis & problem definition, Assessment & evaluation, Collaborative team setting, Design & Prototyping, Duration, Engineering areas, Group or individual activity, Half an hour or less, Ideation & Conceptual design, Individual, On-line Classroom activity, Self-work by students, Type of activity, Type of class, Undetermined, Up to 15 / By ticon_team

The “Taking a Picture” method is about each student going outside to take one picture of their own choosing and show it to the rest of the group.

Role play

Amount of people, Analysis & problem definition, Assessment & evaluation, Between one and two hours, Collaborative team setting, Duration, Group, Group or individual activity, Ideation & Conceptual design, Self-work by students, Type of activity, Type of class, Undetermined, Up to 15 / By ticon_team

Role play is an activity where the students can act or think as another person and put themselves into an imaginary situation where everything is possible.

Pictionary

Amount of people, Analysis & problem definition, Assessment & evaluation, Collaborative team setting, Design & Prototyping, Duration, Engineering areas, Group, Group or individual activity, Half an hour or less, Ideation & Conceptual design, On-line Classroom activity, Type of activity, Type of class, Undetermined, Up to 15 / By ticon_team

Pictionary or Scribble is a group activity where teams compete against each other in guessing what one group member is drawing.

Photo Story

Amount of people, Analysis & problem definition, Collaborative team setting, Duration, Engineering areas, Group, Group or individual activity, Half an hour or less, Ideation & Conceptual design, Individual, On-line Classroom activity, Type of activity, Type of class, Undetermined, Up to 15 / By ticon_team

The photo story method facilitates creating free associations related to a picture series under time pressure.

Oxford vs. Cambridge

15-25, 25+, Amount of people, Analysis & problem definition, Assessment & evaluation, Collaborative team setting, Design & Prototyping, Duration, Engineering areas, Group, Group or individual activity, Half an hour or less, Ideation & Conceptual design, On-line Classroom activity, Type of activity, Type of class, Undetermined, Up to 15 / By ticon_team

The Oxford vs. Cambridge method is an icebreaker that makes student teams compete against each other.

Music Quiz

Amount of people, Analysis & problem definition, Assessment & evaluation, Collaborative team setting, Design & Prototyping, Duration, Engineering areas, Group, Group or individual activity, Half an hour or less, Ideation & Conceptual design, Individual, On-line Classroom activity, Self-work by students, Type of activity, Undetermined, Up to 15 / By ticon_team

The Music Quiz method is an icebreaker or a “mind-freer” where student teams will compete against each other in guessing the name or artist of a song.

Motivational video

15-25, 25+, Amount of people, Analysis & problem definition, Assessment & evaluation, Collaborative team setting, Design & Prototyping, Duration, Engineering areas, Group, Group or individual activity, Half an hour or less, Ideation & Conceptual design, On-line Classroom activity, Self-work by students, Type of activity, Type of class, Undetermined, Up to 15 / By ticon_team

The Motivational video method is an icebreaker that uses publicly available videos to motivate the students to complete more complex tasks throughout the day.

Help the old lady

15-25, 25+, Amount of people, Analysis & problem definition, Duration, Engineering areas, Group, Group or individual activity, Half an hour or less, Ideation & Conceptual design, On-line Classroom activity, Practice-based, Type of activity, Type of class, Up to 15 / By ticon_team

The “Help the old lady” method makes students experience the difference between convergent and divergent thinking in ideation and need analysis.