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“… and not building on that”: The Relation of Low Coherence and Creativity in Design Conversations

verfasst von : Axel Menning, Benedikt Ewald, Claudia Nicolai, Ulrich Weinberg

Erschienen in: Design Thinking Research

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The purpose of this chapter is to explore the relation between coherence and creativity in design conversations of innovation teams. Low coherent segments in a conversation can be understood as the linguistic equivalent of shifts of the focus of attention while designing. Focus shifts have a positive influence on ideational productivity. We therefore reason that low coherent speaker turns function as creative stimuli in team conversations. How this works in practice we illustrate with a case study of an innovation team observed in the wild.

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Titel: “… and not building on that”: The Relation of Low Coherence and Creativity in Design Conversations
verfasst von: Axel Menning
Benedikt Ewald
Claudia Nicolai
Ulrich Weinberg
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Design Thinking Research
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-60966-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-60967-6

Copyright-Jahr: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60967-6_10

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