1. ARC30104/DST30204 Creative Thinking Skills
CTS ASSIGNMENT 2: Masks
10% (20pts score)
The Brief
What is your journey like? According to Joseph Campbell’s ‘Hero of a thousand faces’, everyone goes
through a rite of life through a form of monomyth. It represents your journey as the person that you are
from the moment to are born till the time of your death. In this specific time of your life, which stage can
you say that you are at? Have you heeded the call to battle? Are you going through a form of mentorship?
You describe this well in your IDJ in the form of some visualizations. In this assignment, you need to view
yourself from a larger perspective and think about your character in this world. Create a representation.
Create a mask which represents your journey, your goals or your resolution!
Objectives
To demonstrate and test the solution of the problem by applying analogical thinking as part of
playing.
Duration of Assignment: 2 weeks!
DEADLINE: 16th
September 2015
Description
Based on the 4th lecture, this assignment encourages divergent thinking by exploring the analogical
representations.
2. Requirements
1. Any found materials
2. Any range of papers or card
3. Based on individual proposals and suggestions
Submission:
Live demonstration/testing of the Mask!
Criteria:
Wearable, high in aesthetic value!, original!
Guide/Tip:
1. Implement the first 3 steps of CTS based on earlier lectures.
2. Choose one possible one eliminate the others
3. Illustrate the answer to that question:
a. produce at least 5 ideas via sketches/scamps
or doodles.
4. Obtain materials
5. Test it on presentation day!
Tutorials are available for further discussion with your lecturer.
Good Luck!
*20 pts score will be based on:
Fluency: the ability to generate
quantities of ideas
Flexibility: the ability to create
different categories of ideas, and to
perceive an idea from different points
of view
Originality: the ability to generate
new, different, and unique ideas that
others are not likely to generate
Elaboration: the ability to expand on
an idea by embellishing it with details
or the ability to create an intricate
plan
*Download CTS assessment/marking
rubric from TIMES
