6 Thinking Hats
Six Thinking Hats, a teaching model promoting critical and creative thinking, is used for exploring different perspectives towards a complex situation or challenge.
Six Thinking Hats, a teaching model promoting critical and creative thinking, is used for exploring different perspectives towards a complex situation or challenge.
Also known as “World Café” or “Knowledge Café” is a structured conversational process to share knowledge between smaller groups of people that are discussing a topic.
A Persona represents a fictional character that represents a type of customer or user. The fictional character or persona is created from the synthesis of research data on actual users/customers, generalising on a specific type of user/customer. This method is based on research and is intended to assist in understanding the consumers’ needs, behaviours, experiences, and goals.
NAF Technique is an idea selection method that aims to determine the Newest, Appealing and Feasible from a group of ideas.
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.
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 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 or Scribble is a group activity where teams compete against each other in guessing what one group member is drawing.
The photo story method facilitates creating free associations related to a picture series under time pressure.
The Oxford vs. Cambridge method is an icebreaker that makes student teams compete against each other.