Enhancing the creative thinking for students of the Department of interior design and furniture through the use of mental maps

Sayed Abdou Ahmed, Mennatallah; Goda, Doaa; Hassan, Saeed

doi:10.21608/mjaf.2023.221700.3138

Enhancing the creative thinking for students of the Department of interior design and furniture through the use of mental maps

Document Type : Original Article

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¹ Interior Design &amp; Furniture Department - Faculty of Applied Arts - Helwan University

² Professor of Design, Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University

³ faculty of applied art-helwan university

10.21608/mjaf.2023.221700.3138

Abstract

Mind maps are an expressive means of ideas and schemes instead of being limited to words only, and it is a form of visual thinking, which is one of the higher levels of thinking. This method is the actual method used by the human mind to think, as we may find that the vast majority of people rely on the use of one hemisphere of the brain more than the other, according to many studies conducted in this field, but we find that the mind map is a method of thinking that works on Operating the two hemispheres of the brain simultaneously, the right hemisphere of the brain includes thinking processes such as imagination, colors, graphics, feelings, while the left hemisphere includes thinking processes based on calculations, logic, numbers.

And since the methods used in teaching design materials that the student’s mind usually uses when recording information and ideas work to stimulate the mental skills of the left hemisphere of the brain, while the skills of the right hemisphere are not used, which wastes a large part of the student’s mental and creative energy, which can be exploited in creating Contemporary design ideas characterized by uniqueness and originality.

One of the most important goals of education is to raise the level of thinking of the student to reach mastery through the practice of abstract thinking processes. Accordingly, the student needs knowledge in order to be able to think well and deal correctly with the various problems he faces, but many students are not good at using their knowledge and translating what they have in their hands of plastic elements, color schemes and technical methods into acceptable design ideas despite the availability of information and knowledge they have, and the reason for this is that they are unable to retrieve previously stored information.

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