#ideaslecture

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Ideas lecture in contextual studies, bcu.

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Ideas lecture notes

Where do ideas come from?

How many ways can you think of to squeeze the juice out of a lemon?

Creativity = originality and idea - DON’T DO WHAT IS EXPECTED!

Concept = theme/path that is followed

Idea = the way it is expressed

Start = rough and complicated but by the end it is simple and polished

An idea is explained as almost being like a T.V. in your mind, but with a fuzzy screen. The more you think of ideas, the more ideas are attracted like bait on a hook. These fragments begin to make up a jigsaw. We never do anything without ideas. 

The lightbulb moment almost never happens. Keep ideas alive and revisit - no idea is a bad idea. 

People mentioned: David Hockney, Van Gogh, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Erwin Blumenfield, Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

Thoughts raised:

How do we think? How come two different people can think of completely different ideas?

How do ideas shape our world?

How come some ideas are in one era seen as bad/extreme/shunned and in another they are celebrated?