Exploring Lateral thinking, Brainstorming and
Spider Diagrams
A Google picture search of 'seaside' gave mostly pictures of 'beach', 'sunsets', 'shells', 'weddings on the beach'- which I forgot - all of them, and some illustrations. For instance prints by Natalie Pascoe, and saucy postcards (I love these!). OK, so this search has shown me that it may help not to forget a major concept.
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| Natalie Pascoe (Print) |
I repeated the process with other words, and checking my diagrams against what came up when my daughter tried to do the same thing, I realised that this way is another one to bring up new ideas.
In my case, the word that was more difficult to work with was 'Festival', and my diagram reflects it. It is much smaller than the others. This is simply because my experience of festivals is limited.Or so I thought until I used the Google picture search. Again, it reminded me that I forgot street festivals, such as carnivals, and I've been involved with Mahogany, a big local award winning carnival company (I didn't realise this could fall under the 'festival banner').
My favourite strategy to generate ideas was to think about the subject myself first. I like it because it is more personal, and rooted in my experience. The use of a search engine is easy and quick, (as long as a connected computer is available), and reminded me of important things that I forgot, so I should use it too. Asking someone else is also useful, but it depends on the availability of another person, and who the other person is, while my computer is usually available on demand . On the other hand, the computer comes up with ideas that are less personal and I'd have to be careful not to forget that they can be too commonplace.
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