PUZZLES MYSTERIES+

BRIAN M. KELLY | UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA

• TECHNIQUE AND COMPOSITION• FREEDOM OF TRAJECTORY• HIGHLY END-FOCUSED OR NOT AT ALL

“We know where you are going, you figure out how to get there.”

noun 1. a game, toy, or problem designed to test ingenuity or knowledge.

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PROBLEM SOLVING •FREEDOM OF PROBLEM DEFINITION •

PROCESS-FOCUSED •

“We have no idea where you are going, let us know when you get there.”

noun 1 something that is difficult or impos-sible to understand or explain

+ MYSTERIES

TOPICTECHNIQUE +

FOLD / CAST / DRAW / JOIN / CUT / STITCH / WEAVE / OVERLAP / LAYER

+TECHNIQUE

noun 1. a way of carrying out a particular task, esp. the execution or performance of an artistic work or a scientific procedure.

ENERGY / SUSTAINABIITY / WATER / POLLUTION / EQUITY / FOOD / CULTURE / EDUCATION

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noun 1 a matter dealt with in a text, dis-course, or conversation; a subject

PERFORMCOMPOSE +

• ELEMENTS OF DESIGNLINE / SHAPE / DIRECTION / SIZE / TEXTURE / COLOR / VALUE

• PRINCIPLES OF DESIGNEMPHASIS / UNITY / BALANCE / REPETITION / RHYTHM / CONTRAST / PATTERN / PROPOR-TION / HIERARCHY

verb 1. order or arrange (parts) to form a whole, esp. in an artistic way

COMPOSE +

SHADE / REDUCE / CLEANSE / CONNECT / HYBRIDIZE / SYNERGIZE / OPTIMIZE

verb 1 work, function, or do something to a specified standard

PERFORM+

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dTHINK +• LIFE-LONG LEARNING SKILLS• CREATIVE CONFIDENCE• PROCESS AWARENESS• RADICAL COLLABORATION

“Education is what people do to you, learn-ing is what you do to yourself.”

Joi Ito

dMAKE+TECHNIQUE DEVELOPMENT •

COMPOSITIONAL PROFICIENCY •DISCIPLINARY TRANSITION •

MATERIAL PROPERTIES •

“If I must ascribe a meaning to the word crafts-manship, I shall say as a first approximation that it means simply worksmansip using any kind of technique or aparatus, in which the quality of the result is not predetermined, but depends on the judgment, dexterity, and care which the maker exercises as he works. The essential idea is that the quality of the result is continually at risk during the process of making [...]”

David Pye - “The Nature and Art of Worksmanship”

PROBLEMSWICKED

• Wicked problems have no definitive formula-tion, but every formulation of a wicked problem corresponds to the formulation of a solution.• Wicked problems have no stopping rules.• Solutions to wicked problems cannot be true or false, only good or bad.• In solving wicked problems there is no exhaus-tive list of admissible operations.• For every wicked problem there is always more than one possible explanation, with explana-tions depending on the Weltanschauung of the designer

• Every wicked problem is a symptom of anoth-er, “higher level,” problem.• No formulation and solution of a wicked prob-lem has a definitive test.• Solving a wicked problem is a “one shot” op-eration, with no room for trial and error.• Every wicked problem is unique.• The wicked problem solver has no right to be wrong-they are fully responsible for their actions.

Richard Buchanon “Wicked Problems in Design Thinking”(originally developed by Horst Rittel)

COMPOSITIONAL SKILLS“The ultimate aim of all creative activity is a build-ing! The decoration of buildings was once the noblest function of fine arts, and fine arts were indispensable to great architecture.”

Walter Gropius - “Bauhaus Manifesto”

SYSTEMS THINKINGSystems thinking, in contrast, focuses on how the thing being studied interacts with the other con-stituents of the system—a set of elements that interact to produce behavior—of which it is a part. This means that instead of isolating smaller and smaller parts of the system being studied, systems thinking works by expanding its view to take into account larger and larger numbers of interactions as an issue is being studied.

Daniel Aronson - “Overview of Systems Thinking”

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