Six Thinking Hats: This approach or technique was first introduced by a Maltese physician, psychologist and philosopher, Edward De Bono. A thinking hat is a metaphor for a certain way of thinking. This technique involves looking into any matter in six different ways. It fosters collaboration, creativity, and innovation with the parallel thinking process of these six metaphorical hats.
White Hat:
This covers facts, figures, information needs, and gaps. It looks at what is known and what needs to be known.
Red Hat:
This covers intuition, feelings, and emotions. It focuses on what people feel about the issue under discussion. Importantly, there’s no need to rationalize or explain.
Yellow Hat:
This is the logical positive, i.e. why something will work and why it will offer benefits. It can be used in looking forward to the results of some proposed action, but can also be used to find something of value in what has already happened.
Green Hat:
This is the hat of creativity, alternatives, proposals, what is interesting, provocations and changes. This hat is often used in a brainstorm to generate ideas.
Blue Hat:
This is the overview or process control hat. It works like a manager who manages the process.
Black Hat:
This is the hat of judgment and caution. The focus here is on problems, risks, and challenges that this idea might pose.
WARM-UP ACTIVITY:
(There was no warm-up activity during this Think lab session.)
MAIN ACTIVITY:
Brief: During this session, the main activity was divided into two parts. In the first part, each group was assigned with a hat. We were then asked to create a poster explaining the assigned hat.
In this activity, our group received the red hat.
Final Submission:
Brief: In the second activity, we were assigned with a object and were asked to think about that object using the six thinking hats.
Our group, this time received smart phone as our object.
Final Submission:
FINAL REFLECTION:
Overall this activity was very different from other Think lab activities.
During the second main activity, our group faced a slight difficulty when it came to the blue hat.
As a feedback we were told that our white hat did not capture most of the factual information regarding an iPhone. We were only focussing on sales.
We were also asked to add a picture for our green hat. Therefore I tried sketching an iPhone cover with an in-built slider to cover the camera.
We could have also tried to be more creative with our presentation.
LEARNING MANTRA:
Organising one's thoughts and having a controlled way of thinking is a step in the right direction for creative thinking.
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