GROUP EXERCISE
- Part 1: Challenge assumptions
Q1. Relatives - A doctor in London had a brother in Manchester, who was a lawyer - but the lawyer in Manchester did not have a brother in London who was a doctor. Why?
- the lawyer is the brother in Manchester.
- Because the doctor is the lawyer's sister.
Q2. Bottled Money - If you put a small coin piece in an empty bottle and replaced the cork, how would you get the coin out of the bottle without taking out the cork or breaking the bottle?
- Just push the cork in.
Q3. The Restaurant Meal - Three women each have two daughters, and they all go into a restaurant for a meal. There are only seven vacant seats in the restaurant, but each has a seat for herself. How do they manage it?
- The three women and two daughters are grandmother, mother and daughter.
- Part 2: Challenge assumptions
MIKE’S AUDITION
Have you ever been in Los Angeles freeway traffic? We were once in bumper‐to‐bumper traffic, trying to get to the airport at 10:30 at night. I didn't know that there were traffic jams until late in the evening. In any case, if you have had a similar experience, you can relate to the following problem, which will show us how challenging assumptions leads to more creative solutions.
Mike had an audition for a movie role at eight the next morning. But it was in Hollywood, and he lived on the other side of Los Angeles. He was notified of the audition late, and now it was one in the morning. This was a problem, because it could take as much as four hours to get through the morning traffic, and he needed time to shower and get ready. He would have to get up by a little after three that morning.
He thought about this. Just two hours of sleep, followed by hours on the freeway ‐ this might affect his performance. This would be his first important role if he was hired, so his mind started scrambling for solutions. Taking the bus might be faster than driving his van, but he didn't know the bus schedules, and it was too late to find out. He looked at a map of the city, hoping for a better route, and he might have found one, but it seemed dangerous to guess about routes he wasn't familiar with at this point.
He suddenly recalled a problem solving technique his friend Steve had told him about, and decided to try it. He did the assumption‐challenging exercise, starting with a pen and piece of paper and writing a list of assumptions.
1. What would be on your list of assumptions ‐ if you were Mike?
-There might be traffic at 3 o'clock in the morning.
- might only got 2 hours to sleep because need time to drive and shower ...ect.
- there's another why to go quicker and without traffic but not too familiar with that road, it is too risk because might get lost and take more time.
- take bus might be quicker but not ideas with bus schedule and timetable. ( I think Mike might never take bus before, so he think might take much more longer to find it out)
- performance for audition might get affect because leek of sleep.
2. Challenge each item in the list and find a solution to Mike’s problem
- My christmas card design, I wanna use Adobe Illustrator free drawing to draw the image that I need because it able to presenting better image than hand drawing by colour pencil. The problem is my Adobe Illustrator techqunie is not too familiar, so it might take double or triple time than I expect.
- My piggy christmas card need to print on a hard paper, could I do it on the printer in the classroom? Will it make the printer not working.
- My CDU hand bag design is A3 size design by Illustrator and photoshop, how could I able to do A3 print out?
Design develop - Gifted Intelligent
Refer from one of my favourite website. He has been gave a task to present "Gifted Intelligent". I'm also asking myself how will I present it. This is from a taiwanese photographer name CHEZ SHAMUS
Reference : http://shamusshoot.pixnet.net/blog/post/29509871
Have you ever been in Los Angeles freeway traffic? We were once in bumper‐to‐bumper traffic, trying to get to the airport at 10:30 at night. I didn't know that there were traffic jams until late in the evening. In any case, if you have had a similar experience, you can relate to the following problem, which will show us how challenging assumptions leads to more creative solutions.
Mike had an audition for a movie role at eight the next morning. But it was in Hollywood, and he lived on the other side of Los Angeles. He was notified of the audition late, and now it was one in the morning. This was a problem, because it could take as much as four hours to get through the morning traffic, and he needed time to shower and get ready. He would have to get up by a little after three that morning.
He thought about this. Just two hours of sleep, followed by hours on the freeway ‐ this might affect his performance. This would be his first important role if he was hired, so his mind started scrambling for solutions. Taking the bus might be faster than driving his van, but he didn't know the bus schedules, and it was too late to find out. He looked at a map of the city, hoping for a better route, and he might have found one, but it seemed dangerous to guess about routes he wasn't familiar with at this point.
He suddenly recalled a problem solving technique his friend Steve had told him about, and decided to try it. He did the assumption‐challenging exercise, starting with a pen and piece of paper and writing a list of assumptions.
1. What would be on your list of assumptions ‐ if you were Mike?
-There might be traffic at 3 o'clock in the morning.
- might only got 2 hours to sleep because need time to drive and shower ...ect.
- there's another why to go quicker and without traffic but not too familiar with that road, it is too risk because might get lost and take more time.
- take bus might be quicker but not ideas with bus schedule and timetable. ( I think Mike might never take bus before, so he think might take much more longer to find it out)
- performance for audition might get affect because leek of sleep.
2. Challenge each item in the list and find a solution to Mike’s problem
- There might be traffic at 3 o'clock in the morning.
- might only got 2 hours to sleep because need time to drive and shower ...ect.
- there's another why to go quicker and without traffic but not too familiar with that road, it is too risk because might get lost and take more time.
- take bus might be quicker but not ideas with bus schedule and timetable. ( I think Mike might never take bus before, so he think might take much more longer to find it out)
- Don't take bus, get a cap.
- call up bus service station, they will find out for you in 10 mins or less.
- performance for audition might get affect because leek of sleep.
- try the relax way in transportation like bus, taxi or friend could able to get more sleep on the way.
- shower or cold water face wash before audition.
Practical - Design challenge/ reflect & refine
- My christmas card design, I wanna use Adobe Illustrator free drawing to draw the image that I need because it able to presenting better image than hand drawing by colour pencil. The problem is my Adobe Illustrator techqunie is not too familiar, so it might take double or triple time than I expect.
- My piggy christmas card need to print on a hard paper, could I do it on the printer in the classroom? Will it make the printer not working.
- My CDU hand bag design is A3 size design by Illustrator and photoshop, how could I able to do A3 print out?
Research
Design develop - Gifted Intelligent
Refer from one of my favourite website. He has been gave a task to present "Gifted Intelligent". I'm also asking myself how will I present it. This is from a taiwanese photographer name CHEZ SHAMUS
Reference : http://shamusshoot.pixnet.net/blog/post/29509871
Brilliant - now you got it!
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