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Dear Balder, You haven't said why you are studying designers in the zoo rather than in the wild I am sure you have good reason. 10+ years after the wonderful Delft Protocols there was the DTRS7 project - studies of naturally occurring design meetings, modeled on the common data set idea from Delft but moving from the zoo to the wild, you can read all about those in About:Designing - Analysing Design Meetings eds J.McDonnell & P.Lloyd, Taylor and Francis Group 2009, or look at a selection of the studies in Design Studies March 2009 or CoDesign March 2009. Janet Professor Janet McDonnell Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, Southampton Row, London WC1B 4AP tel +44 (0) 207 514 7144 ________________________________________ From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Balder Onarheim [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 21 January 2011 02:17 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Short (product) design task for study on creativity Dear list, I'm writing a PhD about the relationship between creativity and constraints (any references on that topic is of course highly appreciated!), and I'm now in the phase of developing pilot studies with students and professional designers. In the study I'll have teams of two designers working 90 minutes with producing a design solution for a given (product) design problem. The challenging part is to find a good design task that is possible to "solve" in about an hour, without giving too many constraints, and that most people will have relevant background knowledge to work with. I've considered classical experimental tasks like the measure cup for blind users, bike rack, device for mounting backpack on bike, automated cloak-room and spill proof cup, but if anyone on this list have experiences with using other tasks please let me know! Thanks a lot, Balder Onarheim ////////////////////////////////////// Industrial Designer PhD Fellow www.onarheim.com Copenhagen Business School Department of Marketing Solbjerg Plads 3C, 3rd floor DK-2000 Frederiksberg C [log in to unmask] +45 50 373 555 Think about the environment - please do not print this email In summer 2011 we'll be moving to our new home at King's Cross. The move to this extraordinary state-of the-art space will mark a new era in arts education. FIND OUT MORE: www.csm.arts.ac.uk/kings-cross-move