Creative debate as a tool to empower and create disruptive thinking within learning contexts in a university design environment

Abstract

With this text we focus on the ability Creative Debate has to empower and create disruptive thinking, within the context of University design studies. This research understands creative debate as any debate where participants create the layout, reach agreements, manage its own development and assess the results, all lead autonomously and creatively. One of the items that define the debate as creative is the participants’ design of the “discussions”, that is to say, the design of the activities that bring the topics to be discussed into play on a more experienced way. And this means to previously work on developing a script and a phase of pre-production for those activities that will help to boost, generate, create arguments within the debate. And this work is starting to being developed by design professionals who focus their own work on the design of intangibles (services, systems, situations, cooperation), instead of producing material goods. As a case study we will use a debate undertaken by students from 3rd year at Grau de disseny d’Eina (Eina’s Bachelor Degree in Design), Art and Design College, on April 2015.