Allowing Playfulness - Examining Innovativeness
Year: 2010
Editor: Boks W; Ion, W; McMahon, C and Parkinson B
Author: Lindh Karlsson, Monica; Berglund, Anders; Ritzen, Sofia
Section: NEW PARADIGMS AND APPROACHES
Page(s): 114-119
Abstract
A child’s playfulness and ability to fantasize are also key creative mechanisms in adulthood. Allowing low formal control functions and high self determination is valuable for intrinsic motivation, triggering new ideas, curiosity, experimentation and the desire to impact and change traditional practices – creating innovativeness. This paper sets out to do three things: provide a literature review of the different aspects and angles of knowledge- and competence learning, and the area of creative techniques and an innovative team process; offer experiences and learning from the unique case
studies used; and thirdly, to present the concept of Innovopoly - a new tool to better achieve creative learning and examination in higher education through both the innovative working process and the creative process. These elements together give us the ability to discuss how higher education could best implement courses and methods in order to prepare our students for the future.
Keywords: Higher education, creativity, case studies, design education, design project, engineering project, Innovopoly