Abstract

This paper presents a recent experiment in mocktail design conducted with a group of industrial design students. This pedagogical strategy was devised to foster students’ creativity and confidence. After observing a level of creative deficit among the student body, we initiated an annual design charrette back in 2021. Through this short, sprint-like effort, we aimed to provide an exhilarating, risk-free space to foster students’ creative prowess. After two years, with interesting yet mitigated results where we observed students taking the assignment too seriously, at the expense of risk-taking, we looked for parameters that would more successfully support the goal of sparking a creative mindset. Inspired by speculative design methods, boundary objects, growth mindset, and self-efficacy theory, our approach was to engage students with an uncanny topic - mocktails - to catalyze multi-level creative engagement.

Keywords

self-efficacy; boundary object; design education; confidence building

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Sparking Creative prowess through a peculiar design challenge: a mocktail design charrette

This paper presents a recent experiment in mocktail design conducted with a group of industrial design students. This pedagogical strategy was devised to foster students’ creativity and confidence. After observing a level of creative deficit among the student body, we initiated an annual design charrette back in 2021. Through this short, sprint-like effort, we aimed to provide an exhilarating, risk-free space to foster students’ creative prowess. After two years, with interesting yet mitigated results where we observed students taking the assignment too seriously, at the expense of risk-taking, we looked for parameters that would more successfully support the goal of sparking a creative mindset. Inspired by speculative design methods, boundary objects, growth mindset, and self-efficacy theory, our approach was to engage students with an uncanny topic - mocktails - to catalyze multi-level creative engagement.

 

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