Retrospective and Prospective of The study of Design Creativity: 80 Years into the Past and the Future

Abstract

Design creativity is a special type of imaginative capacity that plays an important, albeit still little understood, role in design activity. This paper returns to the primary sources to inform a critical review of the early studies of creative reasoning that have heavily influenced what we know and how we know it. It does this to inductively and reflectively formulate a prospective for the future study of design creativity that emphasizes a designerly outlook, facilitation skills, associative reasoning, the unearthing of assumptions, methodological awareness, types and stages of design ideas, design briefs, and purpose of ideation. A rethinking of the premises underlying the study of creative ideation has the potential to transform how we study, teach, and support the creative aspects of design practice in the twenty-first century and beyond.

Creativity Methods Adoption in Higher Education: Perspectives of Educators and Students

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The Gap in Design Creativity Education between China and Developed Countries

“…This has resulted in higher education institutions offering courses to enhance students' creativity and researchers focusing on applying creativity methods to encourage students to generate novel and useful ideas, increase learning outcomes, and enhance creativity (Jahnke, Haertel and Wildt, 2017;Al-Samarraie and Hurmuzan, 2018;Jahnke and Liebscher, 2020;Matraeva et al, 2020). For example, brainstorming is one of the most popular creativity methods, and many researchers investigated brainstorming in higher education (Albers et al, 2014;Al-Samarraie and Hurmuzan, 2018;Sosa, 2020bSosa, , 2020a. Al-Samarraie and Hurmuzan reviewed 1677 papers based on the adoption of brainstorming in higher education and proposed the challenges and solutions of various disciplines (Al-Samarraie and Hurmuzan, 2018).…”