AN INTERDISCIPLINARY DESIGN STUDIO: HOW CAN ART AND ENGINEERING COLLABORATE TO INCREASE STUDENTS' CREATIVITY?Art Education 2010, 63(2): 49-53.
Creativity often has been associated with the arts, although creativity also is essential for innovative discoveries and applications in science and engineering. In this article, a pilot study is presented about an investigation concerning how creativity is fostered in an art education course in conjunction with an undergraduate engineering course, through visual arts experiences and instruction using creative problem solving strategies. Through emphasizing creative strategies and ways of thinking developed through art, such as resistance to closure, tolerance of ambiguity, visualization, and use of metaphor (Eisner, 2002), interdisciplinary collaborations of art with other disciplines, such as engineering, can become very successful.
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