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Design and Social Innovation
Today, many public and social leaders are embracing ideas and methods previously only associated with design. Visualisation, experimentation and user involvement is becoming central factors in social...
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Becoming Cyborgs
The term cyborg is often applied to an organism that has enhanced abilities due to technology. It is interesting to think about what the consequences could be as our senses were enhanced outside the...
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Intuition Explains Everything!
Important decisions such as who we should marry, whether to take a job or not, are often made based on intuition, we do not simply weigh pros and cons. Something else influences our decision. Gerd...
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Thinking Inside the Box
Thinking inside a box is not easy. We may get inspiration and improve our thinking if we are sitting or walking outside a box (go here to read a blog post). But is that true? Are there boxes that may...
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One Bright Idea
Richard Turee from Kenya found a simple but innovative solution that prevents lions from killing livestock and humans. Richard, whose family lives within the Nairobi National Park boundaries, raises...
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Innovation – Improving Annoying Things
Does the wire from the iPod or iPhone annoy you? Well, you are not alone. Many everyday things are a little bit annoying. Just annoying enough to make us complain. But often not enough to make us...
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Provoke Randomness as a Thinking Strategy
According to Michael Michalko Leonardi da Vinci was the first to write about the importance of introducing random and chance events to produce variation in one’s thinking patterns. In his highly...
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Conceptual Thinking
Many people are not very proficient in Conceptual Thinking. Perhaps because it is nowhere taught. Conceptual Thinking is thinking with the aid of concepts. Some people describe it as the ability to...
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Blocking the Left Brain Functions
One of the most fascinating books I ever read was written by Paul Watzlawick, a family therapist, psychologist, communications theorist, and philosopher. In his book The Language of Change he explores...
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Hacking – Turning an IKEA Chair into a Bicycle
What do you do when you open a parcel and see an instruction? Do you read the instruction before you try to assemble the parts? Do you try first yourself and only read the instruction after you have...
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Lying in a Creative Way
What a paradox – we often lie but we value honesty in others. During a week, we tell many lies. Around 11 untruths per week are told by Americans! We tell lies to make a story more interesting, or we …...
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Thinkibility Idea Pool – How to Use a Math Equation
Some families have a special chair for each family member. Every morning, everyone sees the home from the same perspective. If you are like me, you love to move around and change the perceptive. So...
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Street Thinking
In my Thinkibility Notebook, I note interesting things I notice. I try to develop a habit to spot and reflect upon perceptions and things that catch my attention. A paradise for harvesting interesting...
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Life Redefined
In an attempt to live my life as an artist – in contrast to a life long list of to-do-things – I bought a Moleskin Art Journal. According to the introduction, meeting art is a personal experience and...
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“Let’s Design New Truths” by “Playing with Ideas”
Please welcome a new guest blogger on Thinkibility who will share his exciting story about supporting women, men and young people in Pakistan. Shamir Faraz is a student who is currently doing two...
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Making Thinking Interesting
Often it is stressed that we should be creative and search for alternative choices or possibilities. And seldom the interpretation of a phenomenon itself is subject to creative alternatives. In...
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Cloud Lamp – Thinkibility Nibble
Wow, this cloud lamp is spectacular! It produces lighting and thunder. And plays music. Product and furniture designer Richard Clarkson has created a fluffy cloud lamp that looks like a real cloud....
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Do You Need New Eyes? – Thinkibility Nibble
The art of non-building! Marco Canevacci is a member of Berlin-based architectural collective Plastique Fantastique. An architect who is not interested in building buildings, instead he focuses on...
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Storytelling and Möbius Strip
“Stories are just as integral to the human experience as design.” Daniel Pink “A Whole New Mind“ Jonathan Gottschall, author of The Storytelling Animal, says that storytelling is the most powerful way...
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Chess, Ants and Jellyfish
Below are two videos where nature is used to gain insight into problems. Biomimicry is a method where you look to nature and natural systems for inspiration. Many innovations have been created using...
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Change a Point of View – Thinking Strategy
Recently we came across a handsome book by Jodie Newman called Business Creativity. In the chapter about Creative Toolkit, we found five tools that we clustered around the theme Change Point of View,...
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Inspired by Beauty – Biomimicry
Richard Dawkins describes in the book Unweaving the Rainbow the relationship between biology and art. To understand science does not detract from the poetry of nature, and biomimicry can be described...
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Symbiotic Biomimicry
Sustainability is an approach where we try to create and maintain conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony. But is the approach enough to make sure that we have and...
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Brainstorm Warning – No Cool Ideas Found
Jeffrey Baumgartner describes himself as “Not your typical, corporate innovation consultant”. Below you can listen to his recent independently organised TED talk, which has been described as “An...
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Bacterial Lamp – Thinkibility Nibble
“I aim to create a living lamp that needs as little care as a houseplant.” Teresa van Dongen Have you ever watched a stretch of beach lit up by bioluminescent plankton? Glowing bioluminescent waves and...
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T29 – Day 21
Day 21- 23 – Creativity There are a range of techniques that can be used to help you create something new and valuable. Distancing is similar to Backward Thinking – a thinking strategy to avoid mental...
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T29 – Day 23
Day 23 – Creativity Think out-of-the box and devise a creative way to storage and supply in supermarkets. The storage and resupply in supermarkets have not changed since the concept was introduced...
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LEGO Rich!
“Are you LEGO rich? Do you have an idea for a LEGO set? And are you a Creative consumer?” Yes, adults play with LEGO too and there are over 250.000 registered members of LEGO User Groups throughout the...
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Marketing Strategies for Beggars – Thinkibility Nibble
There are roughly three strategies to help begglars – those who are for some reason find themselves jobless and have to collect money on the streets. One approach is to take away the most pressing...
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Where to Steal for the Best Ideas – Idea Holiday
Maybe you believe that stealing ideas is not very creative or original.Or even that it is unethical. However, there are idea banks where people post, exchange, discuss and polish new ideas, just for...
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