Print Email Facebook Twitter Analogies as Creative Inspiration Sources in the Design Studio: The Teamwork Title Analogies as Creative Inspiration Sources in the Design Studio: The Teamwork Author Casakin, H. Van Timmeren, A. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department Urbanism Date 2014-07-06 Abstract Analogical reasoning can be seen as an important aid in problem solving, and architectural design problem solving in particular. Analogical reasoning was found to be an important aid supporting architectural education. In this paper we explored the use of visual and verbal analogies in the early phases of the design process when student designers work alone and as a team. In addition, we investigated the contribution of different types of analogy on the creativity of the final design outcome. In an empirical study the use of visual and verbal analogies were compared in regard to the question of how designers deal with different problem solving activities during the design process. Findings showed that the help provided by visual analogy was mainly successful in a definition of the problem, clarifications of ideas, and evaluations of solutions. Verbal analogy, on the other hand, was particular successful in generating design ideas. Both types of analogies contributed to the originality and aesthetic value of the final design outcome. Independently of the type of analogy used, working in team was found to be fundamental to enrich different aspects of the design activity. Implications for design education are discussed. Subject analogyverbalvisualindividual designerteamworkcreativitydesign education To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:73938eff-b09f-431f-85d8-7db588517ea4 Publisher Athens Institute for Education and Research ISSN 2241-2891 Source Atiner's Conference Paper Series No. ARC2014-1188: 4th Annual International Conferece on Architecture, Athens, Greece, 6-9 July 2014 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2014 Athens Institute for Education and Research Files PDF 314861.pdf 452.86 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:73938eff-b09f-431f-85d8-7db588517ea4/datastream/OBJ/view