WEEK 7: Classroom exercise 1

Assignment:
"Select objects or images from your familiar environment that demonstrated the practice of analogical thinking"

Analogical thinking is a way of reasoning between aspects of things.

I have decided to use a bowl as a reference to this exercise.
When you think of a bowl... you think of the size...


You may think of the material the bowls are made of....
Wood,plastic,glass,ceramic etc.




Even the design of the bowl, if its round or square or oval shaped.
 

However, by making a bowl in a more  unique way, we can make it seem more interesting and cool.




By making this bowls in a unique way, we can make them more useful and ideal for purposes needed.
Such as the images shown above, to keep eggs. to store nuts and the nutshells. to keep fruits and have a bowl with openings to show a different dimension to the existing traditional bowl.

WEEK 6 e-journal: Singapore night festival

(images courtesy: Google images \\\ Self-taken)

The Singapore Night festival is a free admission to beautiful extravaganza of art with amazing performances, light installations and other activities. There are food kiosks, music stage performances and other performances such as acrobats. This year i was amazed as how beautiful each and every aspect of the festival was. Every single detail was just breathtaking. Everyone enjoyed to the spontaneous outdoor performances such as flamingo dancing and stand-up comedies and fire and light performances. I truly appreciate such events because its ideally out of the norm and yet intrigues people to come for the festival due to how different and interesting it is. how enchanting and wonderful each and every display and performances are. Its no wonder every year gets more crowded and crowded.  The festival truly a relaxer due to its eye pleasing displays and well layed out performances.One should definitely go! :)

WEEK 5 e-journal: Lateral Thinking

This week in class, we learned to use lateral thinking by creating unusual solutions to an issue. Lateral thinking is solving problems through an indirect and creative approach, using reasoning that is not immediately obvious and it basically involves ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic.

It has taught me to think outside the box and to not stick to conventional ideas and ideas that are rational and practical. It makes me come up with the wildest idea and does not make me afraid to approach the crazy ideas.

Lateral thinking allows me to question my ideas and analyse them to improve them. To me lateral thinking is to use your inspiration and imagination to solve problems by looking at them from unexpected perspectives. Lateral thinking involves removing the obvious, leaving behind traditional thoughts, and throwing away preconceptions and encourages wild crazy ideas to come up with an actual new creative product or what not.