Design spaces and creativity: playing with LEGO® bricks

Abstract

This workshop pack is intended to be used as an open educational resource by educators in research in engineering, design, creativity and related areas. The workshop was developed as part of a PhD research project on design spaces, design creativity and computer games carried out by Esdras Paravizo under the supervision of Prof. Nathan Crilly at the University of Cambridge, UK. The workshop was first run at the Design Computing and Cognition conference (DCC’24) in Montreal, Canada in July 2024. The workshop pack contains the following materials:

Workshop presentation (with an introduction of the topic, overview of the task and discussion slides provided as a .pptx file); Intructors guide (with detailed instructions for educators that want to host the workshop); Task template (that participants will use during the workshop).

Besides the provided materials, the workshop requires educators to have certain physical materials (LEGO bricks, precision scale, rulers and sticky notes). All of the materials are provided as-is, under a Creative Commons license CC-BY