BRAINSTORMING!

     Firstly, what is brainstorming? According to Oxford dictionary brainstorming is "a spontaneous group discussion to produce ideas and ways of solving problems". It is a term popularized by Alex Faickney Osborn. Basically the idea is to get people collect as many creative idea as possible without rejecting even the most unusual idea that most likely not going to work. For me the process of brainstorming is fun, even though it takes quite some time. However I think if we want to find a creative and outside-of-the-box idea then it is one of the way.

     Below is an unusual idea from Tengbom Architects. They made a small unit especially designed for one student. The space saving and Eco friendly material minimized the price so it is affordable for students and yet still can cope with what a single student need for daily life. I think the idea is smart and the realization is kinda extreme. However it works and turns out amazing.

     I believe to achieve this creative idea, they have to do a lot of brainstorming and not afraid to come out with the extreme one. The background of why they built this is obvious, to make a space that understand students completely. They must have met a lot of trouble and things that is hard to realized, however they have managed the problems and still came up with an interesting design.

     Second, together with my group we were brainstorming a hundred way to use chopstick and write it down in a form of mind map. 

     We divided the use into 3 part which is "Pick Things", "Tools for", and "Make Things", but ended being confused and messed up a little. 

     For example we did the "Pick Things" like this. Started with the normal reasons such as picking foods, trash until the most illogical one.

     After a not-so-long contemplation, we have figured out 100 and more reasons to use a chopstick (yeayy) and then we were done ! It looks something like this.

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