Ideas from the OEDK group's brainstorm session

True to the subject matter of the class, Dr. Saterbak challenged everyone to come up with a list of things you could do with a phonebook in two minutes. The ENGI 120 students, other apprentice leaders, and I were all furiously thinking and writing down EVERY idea that popped into our head.

We then formed groups to discuss our impressively long lists of possible activities involving phonebooks. Everyone came up with some pretty unique and creative ideas. However, none of the ideas that we formed by ourselves were nearly as impressive as the ideas that resulted from the group brainstorming session.

After this exercise the freshman and the apprentice leaders were clearly ready to apply the same creativity from our brainstorming challenge to the design projects. As Dr. Saterbak had stressed with person anecdotes, no idea is a bad idea during brainstorming. I believe that everyone truly took this to heart in the groups. In the early stages there were some comical ideas like creating a “squirrel power plant” to power the moisture control box for the OEDK green roof. Although that was a more farfetched idea, the brainstorming session resulted in a wealth of great ideas that could solve these design problems.

It was inspiring to see all the creativity flow in a organized and logical way. From the picture you can see that each group was able to come up w a plethora of ideas.