Tag: filling
In this post I share some initial thoughts on how using ChatGPT to generate ideas changes creative thinking for engineers, and other humans. My simple model for idea…
I have nothing to say but lots to show you – Walter Benjamin. I heard this quote this morning on In Our Time and it really struck me….
There are some inputs to our creative process that we build up over time so that we are ready to draw on them whenever we work on a…
Together, the people around you know so much more than you do. In my last post for now on Filling the Kalideacope – gathering inputs for the creative…
Humans tend be to attracted to novelty – Oo, the shiny new thing – but sometimes what we need is in what we know already. This post is…
A new month, new good intentions. Just like when I started a new exercise book at school, when I would commit to being extra neat (and then forgetting…
This post is another in my series about inputs to the creative process, what I call ‘Filling the Kalideascope‘. Today’s input is visiting the site, and it cuts…
What if you couldn’t look stuff up online? This is a question I keep returning to. One answer is that other people might become a more important source…
My starting point for gathering inputs to a creative project is the working brief. The technique that I use with participants in my workshops is what I call…
Yesterday I wrote about the inputs you might gather at the start of a creative project. These are what I call inputs in the moment. But there is…
In my last post I cited James Webb Young’s definition of an idea as being a new arrangement of existing elements. He goes on to suggest having an…