Creative processes often also involve a certain disposition of attitude: the ability to accept change and newness, a willingness to play with ideas and possibilities without certainty of material reward, a flexibility of outlook, or the habit of enjoying the ‘good’ (what ‘feels right’), whilst also looking for ways to improve upon them.
The learning objective for this module is to enhance students’ creative ability, broaden attitudes towards a greater openness to new ideas, novel combinations of objects and events, and lateral thinking processes. Through their exposure to different forms of representation and expression, students are able to let their imagination roam free, and to explore ideas and images previously unexplored. Through practice, and with disciplined use of time and resources, students will develop the skill of decomposing familiar object or event components, and their subsequent reconstruction to form/create wholly new objects and event interpretations well beyond the boundaries of their pre-existing imaginative capabilities.