Week 2: Design Activity

                                                                                                                                       
In todays tutorial, after introductions and meeting my fellow class mates we discussed the meaning of design thinking in everyday activities. Being set as a homework task, in groups of three we all chose an activity that we thought demonstrated design thinking. My group chose dancing and how choreography interprets music and creates a performance to please an audience. However we later learned that design thinking should be considered separate from a process. Design thinking is directly linked to problem solving. In relation to this we talked about how a surgeon follows a precise process that was most likely developed by someone else. This surgeon does not demonstrate design thinking unless there is a complication during surgery such as an appendix being in a different location, then he/she must think of a way to overcome this issue, by maybe looking else wear with a camera etc. Design thinking could be used in dancing when different choreography is needed due to different circumstances or needs for example it is not interesting enough, the audiences are not responding, change in music or an injury of a dancer. I learnt in todays tutorial that design thinking is responding to a problem and creating a suitable solution. This was further discussed in the Week 2 lecture: Design activity by (Raghavendra Reddy, Gudur, 2014). 

Sarah McGill
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References: 
Dr. Raghavendra Reddy, Gudur, R-R.G (2014), 8600 Graphic Design Thinking and Research, Lecture 2, Week 2: Design Activity. Retrieved from http://learnonline.canberra.edu.au/course/view.php?id=11754.