As a designer and educator I have a fascination for developing methodologies and learning processes that activate creative thinking. That is the reason why I made a research on methodologies that stimulate thinking and have created a one-day creative thinking workshop for students.
In multiple assignments students were generating unexpected ideas by using methods that are based on association, abstraction, combination, isolation, variation and making new connections between single problems.
Forced fitting, ladder of abstraction, morphological matrix combined with design sprints were one of the several methodologies that I applied in the workshop.