Week 10 Random Word / Image Association

The random word is the extension of juxtaposition, a more easier way that help you to get the idea. The random word works as a catalyst which motivate your idea, then you come out a new idea which the random word is not included.

The random word always work with a problem or situation, relate your problem to any random word that come to your mind or everywhere else, then try to think about the random word you chosen and elaborate it. Finally relate back to your problem. It's a good design if the problem is solved in a simplest and efficient way.

Week 9 Juxtaposition

Create a passage/writing that describe the concept of "Life"

Life is like a match

short

but beauty and meaningful

Create a passage/writing that describe the concept of "Love"

Love is warm

deeply feel inside your heart

Create a passage/writing that describe the concept of "Love or Pain"

Love life, live in the world of harmony

Create a passage/writing that describe the concept of "Pain"

Pain gets you melt

Love is like oxygen

You get too much you get too high

Not enough and you're gonna die

Love gets you high

Mr. Radzi Bedu give us some exercise about juxtaposition, this exercise just to let us have a better understanding what juxtapositon is about. The exercise given are interesting and interactive.

Week 8 Juxtaposition

Continue with juxtaposition.

Juxtaposition in action:

Analogy, a cognitive process of transferring information from the particular subject to another.
-making things familiar
-use thing which has not any apparent connection to the object in order to explain something
-use familiar to explain complex(non-familiar)
-Logical Analogy(Use similarities to connect back, submarine and whale for examples)
-Affective Analogy(Emotional resemblance, pig and lazy for examples)
-Metaphor(2 similarity)
-Simile(Allows 2 ideas to remain distinct in spite of their similarities, keywords (like,as)

Oxymoron, an expression with contradictory words, for examples wise fool, legal murder.

Week 7 Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition is the arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side-by-side or in similar narrative moments for the purpose of comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, suspense, or character development.

There are 2 type of juxtaposition.

Juxtaposition(literary), synonymous with contrast, two objects or texts that oppose one another.

Random juxtaposition, two random objects moving in parallel, a technique intended to stimulate creativity.

The 'Lost' Season 1 was played in the lecture, the juxtaposition literary occur.

For examples:
Success/Failure - In his past, Jack's refusal to give up on Beth in the OR where unsuccessful, but when he refused to give up on Charlie he was successful with CPR. ("All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues")

Lucky/Unlucky - Hurley and Walt play backgammon, where Walt is lucky to get the rolls he wanted each time and Hurley is unlucky, getting rolls that caused him to lose. ("All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues")

Help/Hindrance - Charlie's bid to save Claire from Ethan ended up hindering the survivors as it prevented them from getting their answers. ("Homecoming")

Anger/Brokenness - In flashback, Locke is shown very angry and hitting his car. The scene switches to Locke in the jungle, kneeling and crying at the Hatch, seemingly broken. This is a juxtaposition of anger and sadness. ("Deus Ex Machina")

Brokeness/Hope - Directly after the moment described above, a light comes on in the Hatch, reinvigorating Locke's hopes and faith in the Island (and his destiny).

Life/Death - Boone dies at the same time Claire gives birth to Aaron, showing a juxtaposition of life and death with a strong contrast between the two. ("Do No Harm")

Examples:

Angels&Demons

Personal Reflection

Juxtaposition make the subject/topic more contrast. So, the subject/topic will become more interesting and able to gain attention from people. This is one of the good way to combined 2 different/opposite ideas or objects together and generate with contrast effect.

Week 6 Creative Mind-map and Stereotype

Mr. Radzi Bedu gave lecture about creative mind map and stereotype.

Stereotype mean the first impression on something in your mind. Many things already been stereotype and it influence us all the time. For example, we can straight gave the answer without thinking because the answer is already in our mind. The moment you gave the stereotype answer in your mind on anything, you already stop your creativity because you do not think further anymore.

Mr. Radzi Bedu also explained what is creative mind map and also the differences between logical mind map and associated mind map. Logical mind map, every word or image is directly related to the subject/topic while associated mind map generate random words and also show the links between words have no connection.

Choose 3 keywords and explain how to relate them with mortar and pestle. So, I choose married, music and smoke.

Married

The pestle can be symbolized as the groom ring and the mortar as the bride ring. They exchange it.

Music

Using the pestle hit the mortar to produce music or sound.

Smoke

The pestle will be the cigarette and the mortar will be the ashtray.

Personal Reflection

Think somethings different when you are doing the mind map. Do not let stereotype stop your creativity. This is what we call as creative mind mapping.