TITLE:
“Thinking Out of the Box” from Out of the Box! Increasing the Dimension of “Starting Point” Case Study: Architecture Students
AUTHORS:
Alireza M. Hakak, Nimish Biloria, Amirmasoud Dabbagh, Armaghan A. Venhari
KEYWORDS:
Creativity, Thinking Out of the Box, Design, Dimension, Pedagogy
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.7 No.3,
March
24,
2016
ABSTRACT: To start a design process with plan and
section in 2D environment (pen and paper) will exclude thousands of
possibilities, which the designer will never be able to consider them. The 2D
designer will never touch upon the rich world of complexity. Starting the
design from higher dimension is the solution to get rid of old conventional
designing methods. Adding extra dimension to the “starting point” is applying
CAD (computer aided architectural design) software not to extrude the 2D lines,
but thinking from a higher dimension. Now thinking out of the box from out of
the box becomes possible. To prove the hypothesis, authors decided to conduct
an experiment and asked a group of architecture students to design a same
architectural task with different dimensions. First the conventional pen and
paper in 2D and the second time applying 3D environment interface of their own
choice for the same task. The jury of experts concluded that students were more
creative when they chose a 3D interface (higher dimension).