101 Activities For Teaching Creativity And Problem Solving

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150 101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving


31. Parts Purge


Background
If you like to free-associate, you’ll like the Parts Purge technique. It originally was devel-
oped by VanGundy (1992) as Attribute Association Chains. You can use this activity to
generate ideas by listing problem attributes, free-associating from each attribute, and then
using the free associations as stimuli for ideas. It’s as simple as that: free-associate on
problem parts and generate, generate, generate.

Objectives



  • To help participants generate as many creative ideas as possible

  • To help participants learn how to use the activities to generate ideas


Participants
Small groups of four to seven people each

Materials, Supplies, and Equipment



  • For each group: markers, two flip charts, and masking tape for posting flip-chart
    sheets

  • For each participant: one sheet each of three different colors of sticking dots
    (^1 ⁄ 2 ” diameter) and one pad of 4 x 6 Post-it®Notes


Handout



  • Parts Purge Handout


Time
45 minutes

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