Orange Papers

GENERATIVE VISUAL THINKING AND THE CULTURE OF THE CHARRETTE

By Arnold S. Wasserman

Ideas expressed in words mean different things to different people in different contexts. Expressing ideas in visual images as well as words helps “disambiguate” meaning, captures a “thicker” interpretation of ideas, and builds shared understanding.

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Culture of the Charrette


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Notes from conversations between Arnold Wasserman and Manfred Spitzer

My friend Professor Manfred Spitzer is a neuroscientist and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Ulm. He is interested in the neuroscience of creativity. I ask him this question: Is there anything in neuroscience that helps us to understand how designers think – and how that differs from how most people think?

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