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Lesson 4: Logical Mind Map 2

A lesson by Sir Radzi Bedu

Mind mapping is a great tool for idea generation and brainstorming. It enhance both sides of the human brain and widely used in taking notes, research or generating new ideas. A creative Mind Map is able to stimulate and create interest to the individual and also to the viewer. By Tony Buzan.

Logical Mind Map
The Logical Mind Map is directly connected to stereotypes. The Logical mind map comprises of solely stereotype words. Which means that every word or image that is put within the mind map is directly related to the central subject through its links.

Associated Mind Map
Using an associated mind map we are able to generate random words and also show the links between words that seemingly have no connection.



Homework: A mind-map of myself.





Logical Mind Map in Practice: Mortar and Pestle

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Lesson 3: Logical Mind Map

Mind Map:
-is a great tool for idea generation and brainstorming.
-widely used in taking notes, research or generating new ideas.
-able to stimulate and create interest to the individual and also to the viewer.

Logical Mind Map: directly connected to stereotype/

Associated Mind Map: able to generate random words and also show the links between words that seemingly have no connection.

From the Week 4 class
Logical Mind Maps & Stereotype
We have to understand what is stereotype before start a Logical Mind Map.

Stereotype is a conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion or image.

The rules of Logical Mind-mapping:
1. Subject (Title) must in the center of the image.

2. Subject have to more dominant than the rest of the words in the mind map.

3. Decide main categories before executing on mind map.

4. Different categories, different color or different image.

5. Use drawing or image to make the mind map more interesting, attractive and personal.

6. The ideal mind map should shaped like branching out from a center.


Additional Knowledge:

Pestle and Mortar concept.
A mortar and pestle is a tool used to crush, grind, and mix substances. The pestle is a heavy bat-shaped stick whose end is used for pounding and grinding, and the mortar is a bowl, typically made of hard wood, marble, clay, or stone. The substance is ground between the pestle and the mortar.

In design world, the substance is the problem we need to solve, the mortar is the material we choose to solve while pestle is the method we use to solve.






My small research on Mind Map, Brainstorming and Stereotype.

Mind Map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing.

The elements of a given mind map are arranged intuitively according to the importance of the concepts, and are classified into groupings, branches, or areas, with the goal of representing semantic or other connections between portions of information. Mind maps may also aid recall of existing memories.

By presenting ideas in a radial, graphical, non-linear manner, mind maps encourage a brainstorming approach to planning and organizational tasks. Though the branches of a mindmap represent hierarchical tree structures, their radial arrangement disrupts the prioritizing of concepts typically associated with hierarchies presented with more linear visual cues. This orientation towards brainstorming encourages users to enumerate and connect concepts without a tendency to begin within a particular conceptual framework.

The mind map can be contrasted with the similar idea of concept mapping. The former is based on radial hierarchies and tree structures denoting relationships with a central governing concept, whereas concept maps are based on connections between concepts in more diverse patterns.




Brainstorming is a group creativity technique designed to generate a large number of ideas for the solution of a problem. In 1953 the method was popularized by Alex Faickney Osborn in a book called Applied Imagination. Osborn proposed that groups could double their creative output with brainstorming.

Although brainstorming has become a popular group technique, researchers have not found evidence of its effectiveness for enhancing either quantity or quality of ideas generated. Because of such problems as distraction, social loafing, evaluation apprehension, and production blocking, brainstorming groups are little more effective than other types of groups, and they are actually less effective than individuals working independently. In the Encyclopedia of Creativity, Tudor Rickards, in his entry on brainstorming, summarizes its controversies and indicates the dangers of conflating productivity in group work with quantity of ideas.

Although traditional brainstorming does not increase the productivity of groups (as measured by the number of ideas generated), it may still provide benefits, such as boosting morale, enhancing work enjoyment, and improving team work. Thus, numerous attempts have been made to improve brainstorming or use more effective variations of the basic technique.




Stereotype is a commonly held public belief about specific social groups, or types of individuals. The concepts of "stereotype" and "prejudice" are often confused with many other different meanings. Stereotypes are standardized and simplified conceptions of groups, based on some prior assumptions.

A stereotype can be deemed 'positive', or 'negative'.

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Lesson 2: Defining Novelty, Innovation and Invention

Novelty: from Latin word it means "new".

Novelty is the quality of being new. A new style of art coming into being, it essentially exists in the subjective perceptions of individuals.
Novelty is a rare word that used in creative world. It define as a "Quality of Being New".
Novelty is an important explanatory principle in its own right, at least if what is meant by "explanatory principle" is a principle essential to metaphysical explanation or understanding".


Innovation: a new way of doing something or "new stuff that is made useful".

Innovation may refer to incremental and emergent or radical and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations.

The goal of innovation is positive change, to make someone or something better.



Invention: a new composition, device, or process.

An invention may be derived from a pre-existing model or idea, or it could be independently conceived in which case it may be a radical breakthrough.

Invention has a long and important history in the arts. Inventive thinking has always played a vital role in the creative process. While some inventions in the arts are patentable, others are not because they cannot fulfill the strict requirements governments have established for granting them.



Define:
Novelty
The concept that the claims must be totally new.

Innovation
The introduction of new ideas or methods.

Invention
The creation of a new configuration, composition of matter, device, or process.






My opinion:

1.Novelty is the quality of being new, Subjective novelty is the apperception of something as being new by an individual or a group of persons, but Objective novelty is something new for all humanity in its development through ages.
It's something "novel", which looks more striking, unusual, something creative. the term can have pejorative sense.

2.Innovation is also like bringing something new, like new ideas or make changes. It's the process of making IMPROVEMENTS, the realization of a creative idea in a social context, and it must be replicable at an economical cost and satisfy a specific need.

3. Invention.
The innovator have to create a totally new markets for the new product. But anyways, there still a less risky strategy for innovation & invention. Thats the imitator improve the new product that created by the revolutionary-innovator, to satisfy the demand with more efficient approach.