why are you here? because you are creative

Why are you here?Because you are creative

The“Six Common Objects, Six Billion Possibilities”

project

Teachers

Project facilitator: Peter HanHouston,Texas,USA

Project coordinator: Claudia Morar“Lucian Blaga Highschool”,Cluj-NapocaRomania

Creative and open-minded students

10th graders : Iulia Ungur, Oana Lutai, MihaiMeciu, Florin Muresan, Andrei Bucataru, BogdanRoman, Dragos Tripon, Lepsa Dan, Diana Iusco,Somesan Mara, Lupsa Alina, Cira Bianca, ArseneAndreea11th graders : Bianca Mesesan, Diana Ilinca,Monica Marcus, Oana ,Vagner Carla Penta, MariaMustatea, Alex Mateiu, Alin Marcean, YasmineTawil, Catalina Ciolan, Maria

Summary of the project

We invite students around the world to make *something interesting *something artistic*something useful out of 6 ordinary objects which we specify.

Our six objects are:

• One plastic shopping bag• One pencil• One plastic bottle• One rubber band• One sheet of paper• One paper clip

What a cool challenge !

Aim

It would be most interesting to seethe diversity of designs that

emergefrom around the world and to hearabout how each group of students

from different age groups andcultures approached this design

challenge and their resulting designs.

Results• gain a better understanding of the design and creative idea

generation process by using it to produce their school design.• gain a better appreciation for the diverse ways people can be

creative and learn new ways to tap into their innate creativity.• gain experience making decisions and resolving conflicts in

producing a team design. • learn to see their world and the ordinary objects in it from

multiple perspectives and hopefully will apply this enhanced sensitivity beyond this project.

• learn about different cultures by hearing how other schools from other cultures approached this design challenge and by comparing the resulting designs from each school.

• begin to change their mindset about creativity and invention from a fixed to a growth model (creativity and inventiveness are muscles that everyone can exercise to enhance their capacity).

Development*Participating schools indicate their interest by October1, 2010. *Schools design and build their creations duringOctober*By November 30th, post pictures and narratives(written or video) describing their design and how theyapproached the challenge. They will be posted on theproject blog*We then host a series of Skype video calls to discussdifferences and similarities in how we approached thedesign challenge and discuss how our designs reflectour culture. 

Thank you!Now, let’s finally get

down to creative business!

First meeting: October 15, 2010

Meet the group !

We are looking forward to seeing the new

designs!