Constraint breeds creativity: A brainstorming method to jumpstart out-of-the-box thinking for sustainability science

Author:

Gould Rachelle K1ORCID,Saito Tomomi2,Allen Karen E3,Bonn Aletta456,Chapman Mollie7,Droz Laÿna8,Herrmann Thora M94,Himes Austin10ORCID,Ishihara Hiroe11,Coelho-Junior Marcondes G1213,Katsue Fukamachi14,Kenter Jasper O1516,Muraca Barbara17ORCID,Ortiz-Przychodzka Stefan18,Pearson Jasmine18,Tadaki Marc19,Rono Betty J20,Tamura Norie21

Affiliation:

1. Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont , Burlington, Vermont, United States

2. Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo , Tokyo, Japan

3. Department of Earth, Environmental, and Sustainability Sciences, Furman University , Greenville, South Carolina, United States

4. Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, Department Ecosystem Services , Leipzig, Germany

5. Institute of Biodiversity at Friedrich Schiller University Jena , Jena, Germany

6. German Centre for integrative Biodiversity Research, Halle–Jena–Leipzig , Germany

7. Transdisciplinarity Lab, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology , Zurich, Switzerland

8. Graduate School of Frontiers Sciences, University of Tokyo , Tokyo, Japan

9. Biodiverse Anthropocenes, History, Culture, and Communication Studies Research Unit, Faculty of Humanities of the University of Oulu , Oulu, Finland

10. Department of Forestry and Forest and Wildlife Research Center in the College of Forest Resources, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi , United States

11. Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo , Tokyo, Japan

12. Graduate Program in Environmental and Forest Sciences, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, in Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro , Brazil

13. Instituto Centro de Vida , Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil

14. Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies at Kyoto University , Kyoto, Japan

15. Aberystwyth Business School, at Aberystwyth University , United Kingdom

16. Ecologos Research Ltd, Aberystwyth , Wales, United Kingdom

17. School of History, Religion, and Philosophy at Oregon State University , Corvallis, Oregon, United States

18. Social-Ecological Systems Institute, Leuphana University of Lüneburg , Lüneburg, Germany

19. Cawthron Institute , Nelson, New Zealand

20. Department of Entomology and Zoology, Rhodes University , South Africa

21. Graduate School of Project Design , Osaka, Japan

Abstract

Abstract Conservation science often addresses highly complex issues; creative approaches can help develop new ways of doing so. We describe constraint-based brainstorming, a 10-minute creativity-inducing exercise inspired by design thinking. Although we applied the method with the goal of developing creative environmental valuation methods, it is applicable to almost any complex, interdisciplinary environmental research problem. We tried the approach at two academic workshops, in Japan and in Germany. We generated, in each short activity, scores of unique ideas for the target question. We present this engaging activity as a way to simultaneously achieve multiple outcomes that can support innovative conservation science: quickly generate many seeds of ideas to address a challenge or goal, offer insight into nuances of and shared convictions related to the topic at hand, set a tone of creativity and breaking outside of established thought structures, and build community around a willingness to take risks and freely share ideas.

Funder

University of Tokyo

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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