alpha's abstracting assignment
DESCRIPTION
This assignment was produced by Alpha B., a student in “Got Creativity? Strategies & Tools for the Next Economy.” The class was created and is being taught by Tom Tresser (http://www.tresser.com). The assignment is part of a weekly series where we are reviewing the creative skills that are laid out in “Sparks of Genius – The 13 Thinking Tools” by Robert & Michele Root-Bernstein. For the “Abstracting” skill assignment students were asked to create a set of “formulas” using words and symbols to represent a series of emotions or concepts.TRANSCRIPT
LOVE
Straight from HEART
ABSTRACTING ASSIGNMENT - ALPHA
PEACE
All are equal
HATE Drifts you apart
JOY SMILE on our faces
DISAPPROVAL
Never meeting thoughts
DESIRE/GREED
Increases Exponentially
(Starts from a point and knows no end)
APPROVAL
Different people coming to a common point
CONFUSION Lost in Mind
JEALOUSY
Presence of third element
CREATIVITY
Without boundaries
This assignment was produced by Alpha B., a student in “Got Creativity? Strategies & Tools for the Next Economy.” The class was created and is being taught by Tom Tresser (http://www.tresser.com).
The assignment is part of a weekly series where we are reviewing the creative skills that are laid out in “Sparks of Genius – The 13 Thinking Tools” by Robert & Michele Root-Bernstein.
For the “Abstracting” skill assignment students were asked to create a set of “formulas” using words and symbols to represent a series of emotions or concepts.