The lecture about Creativity and Innovation

This Friday I attended a lecture about Creativity and Innovation, which was given by professor Marcelo. The lecture was intended to give we engineering students a brief introduction about creativity and innovation, then encourage all of us to create new things and better productions.
What is dream? How can it influence our life? We can hardly imagine the old days when no refrigerators and no planes were available. The life at that time was not so convenient and enjoyable. Therefore, people’s need made them to dream. They dreamed for better lifestyle with more useful and wonderful things. People wanted faster transportations, they designed to fly, so the plane was invented. It is the same as today. Nowadays, though our world is highly developed, it is still full of problems. What drives us? What is the purpose of life? It is that we all want to make this place a better place to live in.
How to start a dream? We have dreams because we are not happy with the things around us at the moment. If we do not accept things so easily and be constantly irritated, we will have a lot of dreams. There are always some space for things to improve. For example, when we eat noodles, we always find that the noodles is too hot to be put into our mouths. Someone invents a super chopsticks that has a fan on it. The fan can make the noodles cool enough to eat. Maybe you are too shy to use the new things because the others will laugh at you. While, after all the people find the thing is useful and powerful, they all tend to use it. Then, the one who don’t use it will be laughed at.
Thus, as long as users like the products, the new products are good designs. The designers only need to think about whether the consumers like to use it and whether the products can really change our lifestyle. Dream is thing that everyone has, the main point is that whether we can make it come true and how we can realize it.