USING IDEA MATERIALIZATION TO ENHANCE DESIGN CREATIVITY

In this paper, we focused on the advantages of 3D printers to build new creative designs and to make it possible to enhance physical interactions with the design idea that may be able to expand the feelings of the designers and users of the designs. We proposed a general method focused on intentional theoretical expansion of concept space and materialization of design ideas. In an exploratory example, we investigated generation of design ideas and materialization of creative ideas for shapes. Interaction with the materialized ideas, and expansion of concept space results in the generation of new features, uses, functions, or contexts of the design idea and these can be reflected into a new idea. This suggests that interaction with materialized idea and expansion of concept space, and further rapid iterations of this cycle, can contribute to the expansion of human feelings evoked by the design, through this, contributing to design creativity.