Imagine it project

Bring out your creative side!

Turning everyday objets into something of value

Watch this five minute video with a fairly obnoxious narrator, Eliza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlRvRWs4FHs  where she introduced the “Imagine It” project.  

She, and Tina Seelig, our friend who appears in many places in our program, told of a student project where each team was given an everyday object and asked to “create value” with it, value—to quote from the video—having at least “eighteen definitions in the dictionary for the word and all apply [here].”  Tina went on to say, quote, value could be measured by “how much money you make, how much social value, the amount of entertainment value, how creative you are,” and so on.  Value, in other words, has a very expansive definition.

Imagine we are about to give you an everyday object today, something you all know and use, and give you time to come up with “something of value” utilizing it. Let’s say in this case it will be a paper plate. With your fellow team members, you will get several minutes to present your proposal, and that presentation could be an oral report, not overly creative there, or a demonstration, or a sales campaign, or some other more creative way to describe/present your utilization of value of this everyday object.