Sparking Creative Prowess through a Peculiar Design Challenge: A Mocktail Design Charrette - Dataset
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2023
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This dataset was the result of a survey from a recent experiment in mocktail design conducted with a group of industrial design students. This pedagogical strategy was devised to foster students’ creativity and confidence. After observing a level of creative deficit among the student body, we initiated an annual design charrette in 2021. Through the charrette, a short, sprint-like effort, we aimed to provide an exhilarating, low-risk space to foster students’ creative prowess. After two years, with interesting yet mitigated results where we observed students taking the assignment too seriously, at the expense of risk-taking, we looked for parameters that would more successfully support the goal of sparking a creative mindset. Inspired by speculative design methods, boundary objects, growth mindset, and self-efficacy theory, our most recent approach was to engage students with an uncanny topic - mocktails - to catalyze multi-level creative engagement.