Looking Sideways

WHAT IS REFRAME?


“Creativity is to discover a question that has never been asked" -- Kenya Hara

Creativity often comes from reframing ideas into new contexts, new scales and new functionalities; to look at your problem from a totally different perspective. Reframe is a tool to help you do just that.

You upload the text that's been inspiring you recently--websites you've been perusing, papers you've been reading, the random notes that you've been writing--and the tool juxtaposes it in unexpected ways to help provoke new associations and inspire radically new ideas.

These prompts will not always 'make sense'; but that's the point! Allow yourself be open to ambiguity, embrace associations that seem irrelevant, use your imagination to inspire new interpretations and connections, and let this tool help disrupt your thinking...


HOW DO I USE IT?




WHAT ARE SOME EXAMPLES TO INSPIRE ME?


Here's how others have customised the prompts for their own projects:

> General design inspiration

> Designing the Police by Sands Fish

> Designing Micromaterials by Bianca Datta

> Reconfiguring Usefulness by Pip Mothersill (adapting Sam Hecht's Usefulness in Small Things)

> Reconfiguring Truisms by Pip Mothersill (adapting Jenny Holzer's Truisms)




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