Force Connection 2

Force Connection 2

This week, we were asked to pick out 5 random items from a friend's bag and make a story out of them. The items I picked out from my friend's bag are:

- Passport

- Notebook

- Multiliner set

- Charcoal

- $500 Cash

Passport is a Chinese girl who can travel the world freely, but she wasn't happy that all she could do was just go overseas. She wanted to learn how to draw, she wanted to be an artist. However, she always went overseas without any money, she was always alone. One day, she went to Singapore and found SGD$500 cash on the floor. She picked up the cash and decided to take to money to herself. She then went to an arts school to apply for registration to learn how to draw. She paid the school fees and still had $420 left. She then went to the arts shop to buy some school items. She bought herself a notebook to write down some notes and do some sketches, a multiliner set and a pack of charcoal for use to draw. Passport is now very happy as she is able to learn art that she had always wanted to learn, and that she can be an artist that she aspire to be.

Force Connection 1

Force Connection 1

This week, we were asked to choose:

1 object - 1) Pencil

                2) Clock

                                   3) Computer Mouse 
             4) Cup

              5) Plug

                  6) Candle

and describe it with:

Adjectives - 1) Passionate
          2) Sad

              3) Brave

                  4) Creative

                5) Greedy

                         6) Hardworking

I have decided to choose the object 'Pencil' to describe with the adjectives.

Pencil is Passionate because it never stop doing its job of coming out with nice drawings.

Pencil is Sad because people take it for granted and some people do not enjoy using it.

Pencil is Brave because it writes and disappears slowly for people to use them. The more pencil write, the braver it becomes.

Pencil is Creative because it helps the people come out with many new and unexpected ideas

Pencil is Greedy because it wants to do even more work itself and want to be bigger to be able to do that.

Pencil is Hardworking because it is willing to work hard for the people who wants them to work to create the unexpected and new things.

Analogical Thinking

Analogical Thinking

Analogy is comparable to metaphor and simile in that it shows how two different this are similar.

i) Personal analogy

ii) Direct analogy

iii) Symbolic analogy

iv) Fantasy analogy

Personal analogy

Problem solver imagines himself being the object under examination and attempt to uncover the feelings and problems faced by the object.

Direct analogy

Compares object's properties of other objects

Symbolic analogy

Bases around examination of object's properties in an abstract fashion. Make use of objective and personal images to describe a problem.

Fantasy analogy

Frees your imagination from the boundaries of the normal world.

Classroom Exercise 1

Select objects or images from your familiar environment that demonstrated the practice of Analogical Thinking. Reflect on their effectiveness.

 I think that paper is very effective because it can be used for so many purposes. If it is just white paper, it can be used for printing or drawing. When added colour to it, the paper becomes coloured paper. When added lines, it becomes a lined paper that we usually like to use to write down our notes or for our journal use. When stacked together and attach a hard cover, the papers form into a book that we can bring around. With words added on the pages, it becomes a story book. 

There are also many kinds of papers. There are sketching paper, recycled paper, paper with different weight for different uses and also paper that comes in different sizes like A3, A4 which are mostly used, and also A5, A2 and A1 etc. Therefore I have decided to use paper for this week's Analogical Thinking exercise.

Classroom Exercise 2

Identify 3 existing products to discover relationships to other objects and images. Preferably seeking examples where a modest source has influenced the form of a luxurious target, and vice versa.

There are many new invented product designs that provides use for 2 or more existing products.

This chair has been invented as such that the area around it can be used for book storage. This is so that there can be more space rather than having another bookshelf for the books. Also, people tend to sit down as they read a book, therefore, having a bookshelf around the chair itself decreases the fact that people has to walk to the shelf and back to the chair to read the book and walk back to the bookshelf when they are done with the book. This may result in people to getting too lazy to read their books. Thus, this chair if efficient.

This is a mixer bottle, it help to mix liquid with powder like coffee or Protein drinks. Therefore, the spoon is not required for this bottle and drinks can be made easily without having to look for a place with spoon. The bottle also has a cover so the drink does not pour out easily.

This is a set of drawers under a staircase in a house. With this invention, things can be kept in the drawers and space will not be limited. The space under the staircase will also be put to good use and not empty like the past whereby the bottom area of the staircase are usually empty and filled up with a wall.

Museum Trip

This week, we were asked to take some pictures of artefacts at a museum and describe them with human characteristics. We went to the Treasures of the World from the British Museum exhibition in the National Museum. Below are my findings.

Pride
Courage
Powerful

Pleasant

Attraction

Contentment

Serenity

Elegance

Interest

Satisfaction