Year 10 - Design and technology
Bisociation
Investigate and research: High profile event
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Unit Summary
Pupils will identify a client and investigate the client's needs and wants. They will use and develop different research techniques. They will learn about the economic viability of designs to design a product for a high-profile event.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use bisociation to create innovative designs.
Key Notes
- Bisociation can be used to combine two different designs to generate a new and innovative design.
- Bisociation can be used to avoid design fixation when generating new designs.
Vocabulary To Learn
- design opportunities: a gap, or a need where a new or improved product would be beneficial
- design fixation: considering only one or existing possibilities
- innovative: introducing new ideas
- bisociation: the technique of connecting two unrelated concepts to produce a new idea
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Fixating on one idea or existing ideas will lead to innovative designing.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Bisociation can be used to combine two different designs to generate a new and innovative design. Bisociation can be used to avoid design fixation when generating new designs.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'design opportunities'
a gap, or a need where a new or improved product would be beneficial.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Fixating on one idea or existing ideas will lead to innovative designing. Correction: Design fixation is the opposite of being innovative and is focussing or fixating on one idea or existing ideas. This can limit creativity and innovation.
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