Week 7 : Analogical Thinking

Analogical thinking is a way of think by seeing relation between two very different things.

In the class exercise, we were asked to train ourselves to think analogically. We were asked to draw 15 pieces of three items (5 pieces for each) that reflects some selected emotions without directly showing a face. the emotions are : Anxiety, Depressed, Fear, Shocked, Stressed, Happy, Calm.

clock

 Candle

Cup

this way of thinking is good to improve the sense of surrounding and proceed it through some thinking process, resulting something new. By being able to think analogically, we open ourselves to be inspired by the simplest thing that we come up with, the most natural source which mostly is unexpected. Helicopter out of dragonfly, Submarine out of whale, and so on and so on. which how most innovation were done. To be able thinking this way, we have to practice it a lot, so the ideas might come more and more advanced.

I love those exercise which pictures I put above. Because to make it that way, I had to sense what those emotions are like, sometimes they popped in clarity, but the other times they popped in form of blurred visualization in my mind. I had a moment to dig it out to see it clearly and finally pour them out into drawings.