Previous work suggests that unexpected and surprising experiences (eg., living in another
culture or looking at surreal images) promotes creative thinking. This targeted literature …

For hundreds of years, magic tricks have been employed within a variety of pedagogic
contexts, including promoting science and mathematics, delivering educational messaging …

Design training programs that teach creativity often emphasize divergent thinking
(generation of ideas) more than convergent thinking (evaluation of ideas). We hypothesized …

Research suggests that learning to perform magic tricks can promote both physical and
psychological wellbeing. The current study extended this work by examining the impact of …

Abstract The Industrial Design (ID) education offers numerous opportunities for students to
learn the market and user-centered approach; however, in cases in which design students …

While several strands of research have been conducted and shown the effectiveness of
using magic performance as a pedagogical solution to enhance students' creativity and to …

Human-centred design as a research field is characterised by multidisciplinarity and a
variety of many similar methods. Previous research attempted to classify existing methods …

Watching a magic trick is a unique experience in which seemingly impossible events appear
possible but without any suspension of disbelief. Unfortunately, relatively little work has …

The objective of this work is to support co-creation of novel ideas in biodesign during fast-
paced and facilitated workshops. We created a card-based tool which simultaneously …

Abstract Design fixation refers to a blind adherence to a set of ideas or concepts limiting the
originality of design products. It is crucial to help design students develop flexible mindsets …