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In IIT Guwahati, the students who join the Master of Design program come from four different backgrounds, these are Technical background, Architecture Background, Fine Arts Background and Design and Fashion Design Background. The students of such diverse background react/think differently while solving a design problem. The students try to find a solution to a problem which is generally ill-defined, cannot be resolved by them and this leads them to follow a problem-focusing strategy. Empirical data on such design processes were obtained from a set of protocol studies of 27 Design Students with heterogeneous background, whose designs were evaluated on the basis of overall quality and taking into consideration variety of aspects including creativity. From the generated data, we identify aspects of creativity in design related to the formulation of the design problem and to the concept of originality. We have also introduced a tool “Idea Wheel” to the same set of students, faced with the same design problem, left for them to solve. We then reassess the creativity aspect. It is then observed as to how an ill-defined problem can be resolved and how a problem-focusing strategy changes to a solution-focusing strategy among the students. In addition to this, the paper will highlight the validation part by conducting the identical experiment on another set of students with heterogeneous background.
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Authors acknowledge M.Des students of 2012 batch at Department of Design, IIT Guwahati and applicants who appeared for the departmental entrance examination for M.Des program at IIT Guwahati in 2013. Authors also acknowledge Dr. Pratul Kalita for his input in data analysis, that forms an essential part of this research.
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Shende, A., Das, A.K. (2015). Enhancing Creativity by Using Idea-Wheel and Its Validation. In: Chakrabarti, A. (eds) ICoRD’15 – Research into Design Across Boundaries Volume 2. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 35. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2229-3_7
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