Managing Virtual Changes-A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for the Design Professions

by Professor Frank L. Maraviglia and Dr. Alon Kvashny


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 1/17/2006

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 200
ISBN : 9781420853681

About the Book

1.   Fostering creativity and meeting goals and achieving sense of personal accomplishment from developing new design solutions are important to every designer. This book aims to help designers develop their own productivity when developing solutions for design problems that demand originality and an original approach. It is a how-to book on creativity that presents the creative Problem Solving (CPS) Process. CPS offers one of the very important frameworks for the development of improved ways for thinking, generating fresh ideas, implementing these ideas.

The chapters in this book provide information that will help the readers understand and enhance their personal approach to creative problem solving.

Chapter 1 provides a summary, a review of the foundation, and philosophy of creativity. It sets the foundation framework upon which the rest of the book is set.

Chapter 2 provides the background for change and its need for continued growth in life and the need to take a proactive approach to the forces of change.

Chapter 3 summarizes the roadblocks to creative behavior that we have within us and the capacity to rid ourselves of them.

Chapter 4 prepares the reader for using the creative problem solving (CPS) Process. It contains components as well as the use of creative visionizing and imagery.

Chapter 5 deals with the concept of whole brain thinking and the functions of the two hemispheres of the human brain.

Chapters 6 and 7 present information to help faculty and principles in design firms deal with leading their respective students/designers. It discusses the climate needed for enhancing creativity.

Chapter 8 contains a variety of CPS tools and techniques as support materials for creative thinking and design, both divergences and convergence modes. We hope that the materials and resources in this book are informative and enjoyable.


About the Author

Professor Frank L. Maraviglia is the President of Creativity Unlimited, an international creative problem-solving consultant, and teaches at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York. He is a consulting Editor to the Journal of Creative Behavior, author, and writer of numerous articles. Co-author of Creativity in Nursing was named ''Book of the Year-1981'' by the Journal of Nursing. He has been honored by being name Colleague of the Creative Education Foundation, Buffalo, New York, and is a member of many professional organizations. He specializes in developing programs for business and professional organizations. Frank has conducted training in creative thinking, whole-brain thinking, product-development, problem solving for diverse organizations as AT&T, GE, IBM, MONY Insurance, Carrier Corporation, Innovation American, and various school systems and national meetings. While employed at IBM, he revamped their manufacturing training program and developed a new program for first level managers. He developed the first software products for creative thinking and problem solving for both the Macintosh-based and PC.

 

Dr. Alon Kvashny, Chair Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas 79409-2121

 

Dr. Alon Kvashny is Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at Texas Tech University. He received his Ed.D. in 1977 from West Virginia University; MLA - University of Michigan; BLA (Bachelor of Landscape Architecture)-University of Georgia. Prior to his academic career, he served as Senior Landscape Architect for the city of Ann Arbor, Michigan and Jerusalem, Israel. He has published in Engineering Education Journal, Landscape Journal, Journal of Urban Planning and Development, and the Journal of Advanced Transportation. Over the past 30 years, he has been presenting various aspects of creativity in universities and national meetings in USA, Israel, and Mexico.