Creative Journal Synthesis

Creative Journal Synthesis Solve one problem from one of your journal reflections—assignments 1, 2, 3, 4. I Repeat: Choose one problem from one of your reflections/assignments and attempt to creatively solve it. This excludes your team presentations. Use the following “creative thinking” techniques: 1) PROBLEM DEFINITION, i.e. critically examine and attempt to redefine the problem; 2) FREE ASSOCIATION -- Document in detail the process of free association, i.e. your prompts, and how you used your prompts to reflect on the problem. -To clarify a bit, from the content of all of your journal reflections, select one issue as the one problem to solve. -This is to be done individually, with a partner or a group of three. -To solve that one problem from any one of your journal reflection assignments, employ the ideas of "problem definition"--redefining the problem, and "free association." -Break it down into these three parts: 1) PROBLEM DEFINITION (Redefining the Problem) 2) FREE ASSOCIATION 3) SYNTHESIS OF 1 AND 2 Part 1) "Problem Definition" should require 2 pages (double spaced, clear and concise, font Arial 12) -Critically examine the problem in terms of the “problem definition” approach as explained in your lecture notes. Explain how your attempt at redefining the problem may lead to a solution. Part 2) "Free Association" should require 2 pages (double spaced, clear and concise, font Arial 12) -You are mainly keeping track of the "problem" and the "prompts," as well as the new ideas generated from these associations ... Do any new ideas lead to possible solutions? Briefly explain. Document the creative process of using at least 3 different "prompts" in connection with your problem. Part 3) Synthesize your results from Part 1) and Part 2) as a possible solution to the original problem in about 3 pages: • Your synthesis and solution will also extensively include the application of the “decision-making” theory of Jacques Derrida. • Your creative and responsible decision takes place in the context of “undecidability.” • The situation is undecidable because you must attempt to invent a solution that equally affirms both “singularity” (a new creation, innovation, exceptionality, uniqueness, difference, etc.) and “universality” (current knowledge, current rules, current regulations, current laws, ethics, etc.) • Unlike Socrates, who claims that the argument (“universality”) made the decision for him, you must invent a decision which refers to both “universality” and “singularity.” • Therefore, your new, creative solution will be an innovation and yet it will be responsible to laws, rules, regulations, ethics, and/or knowledge.