A Further Exploration of the Three Driven Approaches to Combinational Creativity

Han, Jiarui; Min, Hua; Shi, Feng; Childs, Peter

doi:10.1017/dsi.2019.280

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“…In evaluating creative products, various methods are used, each with its strengths and weaknesses. These methods include the Consensual Assessment Techniques (CAT) [30], the Creative Product Analysis Matrix (CPAM) [28], and the Creative Product Semantic Scale (CPSS) [31]. When it comes to evaluating the teamwork of architectural students in terms of creativity, the CPSS is the most updated tool considered as a further development for the CPAM.…”

Section: Creativity and Idea Generation Styles Of Architectural Studentsmentioning

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How Do the Demographic Differences of Architectural Students Correlate to Their Performance in Multidisciplinary Fields?

Soliman,

Farag,

Hosny

2023

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Architectural education needs creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. However, little research has looked into how demographic differences, especially gender and learning style, affect the performance of architecture students especially in multidisciplinary curricula. Therefore, the paper aims to investigate the relationship between learning styles and gender among architecture students and their academic performance in a biomimicry-based practice. A practice one-week workshop was employed with a sample of architecture students to identify their idea-generation style and creativity, through novelty, resolution, and elaboration. The study found that Learning styles greatly influence idea generation style preferences and creativity performance in teamwork. Females tend to be more collaborative idea-generators during the initial stages than males. Also, Scores of novelty and elaboration were more closely tied to learning styles, while resolution scores were more associated with gender. Despite many limitations such as the focus on a specific multidisciplinary field (the architectural articulation of biomimicry), the results contribute to the development of architecture teaching strategies and the broader field of biomimicry by providing insights into how different students approach biomimicry-based design challenges.

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How Do the Demographic Differences of Architectural Students Correlate to Their Performance in Multidisciplinary Fields?

Soliman,

Farag,

Hosny

2023

ijmst

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“…By applying the “Explore function”, the designer could discover the knowledge concepts “C1”, “C2” and “C3” around the “Basic word” as denoted in Figure 7 . The “Search Path” function provides the paths, e.g., Path C1C2 between two terms “C1” and “C2” for combinational creativity ( Han et al 2019 ). This process can be iteratively applied to discover knowledge associations and paths such as “C3” and Path C1C3 .…”

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WikiLink: An Encyclopedia-Based Semantic Network for Design Creativity

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Data-driven design is a process to reuse data sources and provide valuable information to provoke creative ideas in the stages of design. However, existing semantic networks for design creativity are built on data sources restricted to technological and scientific information. Existing studies build the edges of a semantic network on statistical or semantic relationships, which are less likely to make full use of the benefits from both types of relationships and discover implicit knowledge for design creativity. Therefore, to overcome the gaps, we constructed WikiLink, a semantic network based on Wikipedia, which is an integrated source of general knowledge and specific knowledge, with broad coverage of disciplines. The weight in WikiLink fuses both the statistic and semantic weights between concepts instead of simply one type of weight, and four algorithms are developed for inspiring new ideas. Evaluation experiments are undertaken, and the results show that the network is characterised by high coverage of terms, relationships and disciplines, which demonstrates and supports the network’s effectiveness and usefulness. A demonstration and case study results indicate that WikiLink can serve as an idea generation tool for creativity in conceptual design. The source code of WikiLink and the backend data are provided open-source for more users to explore and develop.

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“…For instance, Chan and Schunn (2015) found that far conceptual combinations, which are combinations of "source concepts that are very different from each other" (p. 104), do not necessarily lead directly to more creative concepts but "building on concepts that themselves build on far combination have more positive effects" (p. 104). Han, Park, Shi, Chen, and Childs (2017) proposed three approaches to foster combinational creativity, including problem-driven approach where a problem-solving idea plays the role of a bridge between the primary idea and the new target idea; similarity-driven approach where a similar representation works as an additive; and inspiration-driven approach where an inspirational idea stimulates a designer to generate new creative solutions. Malycha and Maier (2017) tested random-input technique to foster conceptual combination and found that conceptual combination enhances creativity when combined with knowledge activation.…”

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Analyzing Individual Differences in Creative Performance: A Case Study on the Combinational Ideation Method in the Interior Design Process

Suh

Cho

2018

Journal of Interior Design

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Research on creative performance indicates that a combination of the primary sources such as known concepts and existing ideas plays an important role in the generation of new ideas. Although studies show a link between the combinational approach to ideation and creativity, how individual differences in cognitive styles are related to this approach is not well understood. This exploratory study examines the domain‐specific relationship between individuals’ cognitive styles and improvement of creative performance within the structured combinational ideation process where mixing various ideas is encouraged. Fifty interior design students enrolled in the second year of an interior design program at a Midwestern university participated in this study. The workshop designed for this study was structured in the following stages: initial design (ID) + the combinational ideation process (the variation process [VP] + the combination process [CP]) + final design (FD). The participants’ creative performance was measured at the ID and the FD phases by three experts. Findings indicated that intuitive individuals generally showed the highest creativity in the ID phase, but they showed a decrease of creativity in the FD, implying that a structured combinational ideation method might not be the best method for intuitive individuals. In contrast, individuals possessing an adaptive and an analytical information processing style showed an increase of creativity in the FD after completing the structured combinational ideation process, suggesting that students with a nonintuitive cognitive style benefit most from this method. The result of this research will provide design educators with meaningful insight into the instruction methods that take students’ cognitive styles into consideration, especially in helping nonintuitive students who struggle in the ideation process.

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A Further Exploration of the Three Driven Approaches to Combinational Creativity

Cited by 7 publications

References 51 publications

How Do the Demographic Differences of Architectural Students Correlate to Their Performance in Multidisciplinary Fields?

How Do the Demographic Differences of Architectural Students Correlate to Their Performance in Multidisciplinary Fields?

WikiLink: An Encyclopedia-Based Semantic Network for Design Creativity

Analyzing Individual Differences in Creative Performance: A Case Study on the Combinational Ideation Method in the Interior Design Process

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