Who is in your group?Conor BrennanGary MeredithChong LiuXiao HanLiyi Wei

What was the topic you were discussing? Canceling Christmas

How was it in the canteen? Slightly more disruptive

How was it in the classroom? Easier to focus More pressure

What creativity techniques did you choose?

PMICAF -> FIPRandom wordsCNS -> PestleAttempted Six Hats for a 5mins

For each technique how did you decide to use that one?PMI: Decided because short a quick and easy

to use After we created a summary

CAF: Thought might be useful to focus in the groups thinking when used with FIP

Random Words: We thought it would offer some new ideas, but it didn’t use it successfully as

For each technique how did you decide to use that one?Six Thinking Hats, we lost focus as its quite

complicated and didn’t lend itself to the short amount of time we had left at this point

CNS (Pestle): Good summary or overview. Focused the group. Useful for the type of statement we had.

Which technique(s) proved most effective? PMI was most useful

Which technique(s) proved least effective?Random words / Key Words

PMI: Positives Less StressSave MoneyMore Work DaysLess Shopping RushShops open more oftenAvoid annoying kidsEarlier Exams

What ideas reasons/ alternatives/etc. did you come up with ?

PMI: MinusPeople wouldn’t get togetherNo GiftsNo SantaNo Sales, No Double PayNo BreakLess Sales, Less money gov receipts

What ideas reasons/ alternatives/etc. did you come up with ?

PMI: InterestingSanta RetiredNew Years Bigger BetterPossible replacement Holiday

FestivalsLess waste generated from presents

What ideas reasons/ alternatives/etc. did you come up with ?

CAF: What would we do instead of Christmas?FIP’ed it:

1.Family 2.Holiday and also Hobbies3.Do some college work4.Volunteer or charity work5.Create your own festival6.Plan your year7.Give yourself a big present8.Protest against Christmas being cancelled

What ideas reasons/ alternatives/etc. did you come up with ?

Random Words: From winnie pooh the word was home

Didn’t work because never got beyond consolidating those words the few words we did get were:

Kitchen Family Tv Party

What ideas reasons/ alternatives/etc. did you come up with ?

Six thinking hats led us to doing a CNS/Pestle

What ideas reasons/ alternatives/etc. did you come up with ?

What ideas reasons/ alternatives/etc. did you come up with ?

Short Term Medium Term Long Term

P Political parities unpopular Change in Gov People get over it

E Less taxes, less spending Higher unemployment

S Less family Interaction Self-centred Organ donations drop

T Not as many gadgets, gimmicks

Products more focused on real problems

Less innovation, more deliberate purchases

L Less petty crime

E Less waste Less carbon, pollution Better World

What decision did you come to about the topic? Didn’t have enough time.