Cracking the Creative Mind
Does creativity come by nature or by nurture?
In such a competitive and fast-paced world, coming up with outbreaking ideas is necessary to stand out from the crowds and maintain your competence. This explains why creativity is currently one of the most in-demand qualities that employers are looking for when hiring new job candidates. The nature of creativity, nevertheless, is often ambiguous and thinking creatively is commonly believed to be restricted to a lucky minority of innately creative people.
This bootcamp embarks on Edward de Bono’s Lateral Thinking theories to help participants adopt a creative mindset and master creative thinking skills. Lateral thinking seeks irrelevant inspirations, breaks out mind fixedness and encourages coming up with as many options as possible. To achieve this, the theory suggests multiple deliberate thinking techniques to restructure information and bring about unforeseen ideas. Lateral thinking helps you enrich your personal life and have an advantage in whatever field you enter.
Participants will understand, through games and exercises, how their minds work. This will help them develop self-awareness of their mind mechanism. Then, participants will train on fundamentals of creative thinking such as deferring judgment, changing perspectives and generating as many alternatives as possible. Finally, participants will practice techniques to break their repetitive thinking patterns. Techniques include analogies, reverse method, SCAMPER and PAGES. Applications cover a variety of topics, including entrepreneurship, product design, landscape and fashion. Participants will often work on 3D models to materialize their ideas and turn them into usable artifacts.
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of creativity as a process that is an integral part of learning and a vital 21st-century skill
- Differentiate between critical and creative thinking, and learn how and when to use each
- Apply the learned creative thinking techniques to solving both abstract and real-life challenges
- Generate, discuss, analyze, and present alternatives to reach certain goal-oriented solutions
- Experience the creation of artifacts and 3D models manifesting the generated ideas
Duration and Location
- One week: TBA
- Sessions will run daily from 9 am to 3 pm
- AUC New Cairo campus
- Fridays and Saturdays off
Fees
- EGP 3,700 (price including materials needed)
- The following discounts are offered:
- 10% discount for siblings
- 10% discount for AUC faculty and staff
- 15% discount for AUC alumni
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Who can apply?
Students aged 10 - 14 years.
Certification
All the bootcamp participants will receive a certificate of participation from AUC.
Transportation
The AUC bus service is available for extra fees. Details on the schedule will be shared before the program's start date.
Accommodation
Accommodation is offered at the University Residences in case needed.
About the Instructors
Doha M. Issa
Doha M. Eissa holds a PhD in architecture and urban design. She is an internationally certified professional trainer. She studied design at a number of Universities in Egypt, Italy, the UK, and Germany. With over 18 years in this career, Eissa has worked on simplifying architectural concepts and passing them forward to younger generations. She has developed her own Architecture for kids series of workshops and has been delivering them since 2012 in Cairo and Dubai.
AUC Refund Policy
A 100% refund of the program fees will be offered in the following cases. If reported at least three weeks before the program's start date.
- Course cancellation
- Medical withdrawal
- Visa denial