Today I went on my
creative walk to get an understanding of how individuals use creativity to
transform their own space in interesting and unique ways. The first house that
caught my eye had done something very unique to their front yard. They had
turned their entire yard into a garden space to grow crops. This is a very good
idea to not only lessen the amount that you spend on groceries, but also is a
great way to do something very different with the limited space that you may
have. The creative ideas that I would take from this display would be that it
is perfectly okay to have a unique idea and to implement it, even if it is
incredibly different from everything else around you.
Another example that I
found multiple different examples of was the use of natural shrubs and plants
to form a living fence. I think that the use of natural plants to create
dividers within a space is a great way to maintain your privacy, for a fraction
of the cost that a traditional fence would cost to achieve the same results.
The creative quality that I would extract from this idea is to always look at
multiple different ways to solve a problem, instead of just the way that it is
traditionally done. You never know whether thinking a bit outside the box will
yield a better result.
The final things that I
noticed during my creativity walk, were little embellishments that people made
to their yards or homes to either add aesthetic beauty or functional art. There
were many different examples if these. There were small benches made out of stones
to sit and relax. There were pieces of ornamental glass arranged to filter
colored light inside of the home. There was even a clothesline stand mounted on
someone’s roof because they had a very small yard. The creativity and diversity
within this small neighborhood helps me to realize that you don’t need to
always use things in the ways that they were designed to be used. Find other
functions for ordinary spaces and objects, and you can have an incredible array
of results.
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