Filip Dujardin is a Belgian photographer, who makes images that are just believable enough to confuse the eye. Dujardin calls his art--which is not quite photography and not quite illustration -“fictions.” He creates his fictions from multiple photographs that he cuts and pasts into something that is just believable. A building made entirely out of …
Mainstream Thinking about Designing Systems
Many technical systems, but also economic and organizational systems are organized to the limits of its capabilities. There are no redundancies, all components are trimmed to the bare bones. A little distortion in a daily routine can cause a cascade-effect and leads to a total breakdown of the system. There is no back-up or fail-safe. …
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Language is not Innocent – How Thinking Patterns are Created
Language is not innocent, it determines how reality is interpreted. Words create logic bubbles that are difficult to escape from. The way we use words may prevent us from finding solutions, restrict new ideas, and lead to wrong public policies. In this blog post we will try in a simple way to explain how thinking …
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Designing a Book Cover
We would like to share with you a couple of successive designs as an example how a design process develops in time.First, we wanted to make an ebook without a fancy cover, but marketing experts told us that people buy book-covers, instead of books; even it is an e-Book. The cover should reflect the main …
Backward Thinking
I was involved in a creative session with someone who desperately wished to go on her first cruise. However, she lacked time and money to undertake such a journey. We did an APC, one of Edward de Bono's Thinking Tools. APC is a crystallisation of the process of deliberately trying to find alternatives. Using the …
Before you say Yes or No
We are used to relying on our vision but according to IBM in the future the focus will be on broadening the perspective developing capacities to mimic the ability to smell, touch, taste and hear. Tiny sensors in the computer may detect if you are coming down with a cold by analysing your breath. Many …
Visualising to Explore a Model
Visualising is a great tool when we are solving problems. We can create an image of a situation to make sense of it. Sometime we visualise to explore “what will happen if. . .?” Visualising helps us: to explore a model to plan ahead to dive into a problem Visualising to explore a model is …
Training in Economics is a Serious Handicap
Or the Logical Bubble of Economists. Economists decided to increase the maximum number of babies in a nursery to make the industry more profitable. Economists advised to pay math teachers more, because of the shortage of them. Economists recommended that employment projects for the disabled and mentally retarded should be closed... because they are not …
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World Thinkers’ Ideas – Embrace Different Experiences
Snail porridge and sardine on toast ice cream may have changed the way we think about what tastes good. Heston Blumenthal is a chef with an inquisitive mind who plays with phials, gases, and centrifugal forces. A new approach to cooking, where science is regarded as a tool like the oven. But can scientific knowledge …
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How to Deal with Positive and Negative Aspects
A new way to walk through a forest. Or a silly idea? Often ideas are judged quickly – too quickly in some cases. A trampoline walkway through a Russian forest! What are the positive aspects of Salto Architects trampoline walkway, Fast Track? Salto, which is based in Tallinn, installed an anchorage system to hold the …
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Thinkibility – Postive & Negative
Coming soon! Thanks to Amador Rehak for making the eBook cover.
World Thinker’s Ideas – Challenge our Perceptions
Most of us trust our eyes. We may believe in what all our other senses tell us, taste, hearing, touch, smell, but vision is usually special. We are constantly taking in information and we try to make sense of the world around us. Lottolab studio is the world’s first public perception research space. Neuroscientist Beau …
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Directing the Thinking
Can you direct and control your thinking? And do you know when it is necessary to direct your thinking? Many of us have never learned, at least not deliberately, to direct our thinking. And we may not reflect upon our thinking. We think as we perform other bodily functions, automatically, unconsciously, without attention. However, the …
Intelligent Gossip at the Water-cooler
Learning how to gossip intelligently is a powerful instrument for serious self-critism, because it is much easier to identify the mistakes of others than that of our own. So, make a habit of criticizing the thinking of others. This is the opinion of Daniel Kahneman, who argues that to become a good thinker we need …
Design Thinking – Organic Forms
What is this? It is the perfect car! Strange! No way! Impossible! Well, many of us do not see a car at all. We see striking colours and bulging forms. Ross Lovegrove is famous for his organic inspired designs. Here he has stripped the car down to its "Genesis Form." A futuristic concept …
Extracting Concepts – Change the Medium
So what it is about? This is often a dreaded question regardless of whether it concerns your thesis, you new book, or suggestions and ideas to change your company. Many ideas are difficult to put into words. We may know very well what it is all about, yet explaining things is not always that easy. …
World Thinkers’ Ideas- Mixing Art, Science and Dreams
The vision that people could ingest food by smelling or whiffing it lead David Edwards to design the chocolate inhaler. The idea behind Le Whif, the chocolate inhaler, takes into account not only our desire for chocolate but also the fact that over the last centuries we have changed our eating habits – we consume smaller quantities but …
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Creativity the Lego Way
What can adding a third dimension mean for your business meetings? And can it help with creative thinking skills? Using building blocks such as Lego in a business setting can help you tap into areas of creative thinking. We often find it easier to listen and engage in problem-solving while using our hands. Many of …
Thinkibility and Pictures
The saying a picture is worth more than a thousand words could be the motto for Pinterest. A great way of sharing and organising things and ideas. Browsing the pinboards is great way to discover new things and get inspiration from other people. Use the pinboards as a inspiration for your thinking, increase your understanding …
Exciting Ways to Store Data
Creative ways to think about data storage A book in a test tube. All the information on Internet stored on a device the size of our thumb! We live in an age of information abundance and new ways to think about data storage is emerging. How can information and data be stored and presented? An …
