Abstract
The development of creative thinking and creative problem solving is an important part of modern sustainable education. In teaching graphic design, educators should ensure the cultivation of sustainable creativity among students. Creative thinking and program development can be facilitated with the help of effective thinking tools. Among the various thinking tools, mind maps represent an easy-to-use visual diagram-based divergent thinking tool. However, few studies have examined the impact of mind maps on sustainable creativity in the design discipline. Similarly, few empirical studies have been conducted to analyse deeply the functional structure of and a graphic design education based on mind mapping. This study aims to examine the relation between students’ use of mind mapping tools and sustainable creativity in implementing mind mapping-based graphic design activities with a sample size of 35 first-year design students. Through an empirical experiment, each student was asked to create a mind map and generate a new graphic design work based on the given experimental materials. The results showed that the mind mapping tool plays an important role in the pre-conceptualization phase of the design process. This tool can effectively help designers develop creative ideas, stimulate their minds, and help them maintain their creative energy and have a sustainable and innovative creative ability.
Highlights
Creativity is typically defined as the ability to produce novel and useful products in a given social context [1]
The present study focused on the broad role of mind mapping in the graphic design process and its succeeding design outputs
In reference to the methodology used in literature [16], each expert evaluator ranked and scored the design output based on two criteria: appropriateness and originality
Summary
Creativity is typically defined as the ability to produce novel and useful products in a given social context [1]. Organizational creativity was defined as the creation of a valuable, useful new product, service, idea, procedure, or process by individuals working together in a complex social system [3]. Innovation is one of the motivators of the sustainable development of organizations [4]. Creativity is used to solve problems [2], and it is a function of three components: expertise, creative thinking skills, and motivation [5]. Training a large number of outstanding, quick-thinking, and well-educated creative talents, while leading their creative abilities towards sustainable development, has become a social and economic strategy among countries to solve their sustainable development problems. Expanding innovation education into sustainable innovation education and strengthening the cultivation of college students’
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