Creative imaginings: a model of imagination in design

  • Authors:
  • Mads Nygaard Folkmann

  • Affiliations:
  • Danish Centre for Design Research, Copenhagen K

  • Venue:
  • DESIRE '10 Proceedings of the 1st DESIRE Network Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Design
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The paper aims to develop a model for conceiving an important part of creative processes in design: human imagination. Whereas most creativity models focus on methods for enhancing creative work for example in collaboration with others, the approach of the paper is to contribute to design epistemology and to attempt a philosophical-phenomenological investigation of the inner dynamics of human imagining. Thus, the paper does not set out to peer inside the designer's mind but to investigate the construction of meaning in design structurally through the notion of Schematization as it unfolds on the interface between consciousness and the material world. The paper argues that knowledge about creativity in design can be informed by a look behind the factors of its dynamics.