{"id":5658,"date":"2025-06-18T10:59:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T18:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/?p=5658"},"modified":"2025-06-18T11:00:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T19:00:23","slug":"forgetfulness-opportunity-for-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/?p=5658","title":{"rendered":"Forgetfulness: Opportunity for Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s both simple and easy to blame my forgetfulness on age. Then again, I was never good at memorizing which was a disadvantage in school. And these days, forgetting something is a frequent occurrence. I would say I am more forgetful on the short-term memory side of things. One of the more persistent forgetful predicaments is not remembering what I want to say next in a conversation. But I also have started to forget long-term memories that I know had stuck with me for decades…until recently.<\/p>\n

There is significant research into dementia. Memory decline may also be related to other health issues. I also believe conditioning for short attention spans weakens the memory faculty. Much of this relates to faster messaging, messaging overload, and complex messaging.<\/p>\n

Moving to the idea that forgetfulness may be an opportunity for creativity. Working with memory may be a great opportunity for a design thinking project. There should be an abundance of possible innovations or re-tools of existing solutions. How do you remember where you placed your phone? What study aids do you use? How long does it take you to recall someone’s name?<\/p>\n

Do we need technology-assisted solutions or might it be better to just simplify or decongest things we remember?<\/p>\n

With regard to technology-based assistance, I remember the advent of digital assistants and the mobile personal organizer functions. Today, there is excitement about Artificial Intelligence. What solution can human-centered design thinking lead to?<\/p>\n

If we think about simplification as a habit-based strategy to better memory skills, we could create various composite character profiles to help us apply empathy in our design thinking process. Can we enhance management of our short-term vs long-term memory by using a human-centered approach?<\/p>\n

I would also include consideration of health-based changes to strengthen our memory system health and condition. What could we do in the area of lifestyle optimization for garnering memory well-being and resilience?<\/p>\n

Interesting. Memory health may be a topic I include in this summer’s Sustainability Design Thinking course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s both simple and easy to blame my forgetfulness on age. Then again, I was never good at memorizing which was a disadvantage in school. And these days, forgetting something is a frequent occurrence. I would say I am more forgetful on the short-term memory side of things. One of the more persistent forgetful predicaments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5662,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658\/revisions\/5662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}