Understanding and fostering creativity through nature inspired structures project

Archt. Upeksha Hettithanthri ,Senior Lecturer / Head ,Department of Design Studies ,Faculty of Engineering

Abstract :-

Creativity is an amazing ability which is associated with human brain. Understanding creativity and how creativity could be utilized in creation is further explored in this review. Creative efforts and values of creativity can contribute largely in assessing creativity. Creativity can be identified as an extraordinary ability which has socio cultural, economic values. This study was conducted among 50 students of Interior Architecture degree program to understand how the nature inspired structural design project have been supportive in stimulating creativity of the design students. For this study qualitative methodology was adopted in collecting and analyzing data. The study is focused on investigating how students could foster their creative thinking ability through making nature inspired model making and prototypes and how the creativity levels could be differed from non-nature inspired theory based structural design project.

Keywords— creativity, nature inspirations, prototyping