Methods and techniques for finding creative solutions
Authors: Denysenko Yurii , Omelchenko Anna , Makarchuk Julia 
Published: September 2022

The purpose of the article is to identify and systematize the methods and techniques used by artists, designers, architects and representatives of other creative professions in the process of performing creative tasks. The research methodology is to use analytical. Interdisciplinary and systematic approaches, allowed to analyze and to systematize the literature on the research topic, comprehensively study the factual material, classify and systematize the data. To achieve the goal of the study used methods of observation, comparative analysis, synthesis, systematization, classification, theoretical generalization. Scientific novelty: the results of previous researches devoted to revealing of receptions and methods of the decision of creative problems are generalized. Certain approaches, methods and techniques of creative solutions are systematized by classifying them into three groups: 1. approaches, methods and techniques that are used mainly in the process of finding general design solutions; 2. approaches, methods and techniques that are used mainly in the process of forming and searching for artistic images of individual objects, plots or complexes; 3. approaches, methods and techniques used in the process of finding general design solutions, and in the process of formation and development of artistic images of individual objects, plots or complexes. Conclusions. There are certain types of approaches, methods and techniques that can be used only by certain types of project activities. But most of the identified approaches, methods and techniques of finding creative solutions can be used in architecture, and in various types of design, and in other areas of project activities. In the process of research of such methods and techniques, their systematization was carried out by classifying them into three groups: the first group includes approaches, methods and techniques that can be used mainly in the process of finding common design solutions; the second group includes those that are mainly used in the search for artistic images and the formation of individual objects; to the third group – those that can be used in solving general design issues, and in the process of forming and searching for artistic images of individual objects or their complexes. At the same time, some methods and techniques commonly used to find general design solutions under certain conditions may be involved in the search for individual artistic images, and vice versa, what potentially allowing to lead to completely unexpected solutions. This study covers only a small number of known approaches, methods and techniques, in order to systematize them in principle. Using the proposed classification, it is possible to develop a clear system that would cover most of the available approaches, techniques, methods (ideally – all), which are used in some types of project work, and the general system of all available techniques and methods. Further research will be devoted to the implementation of these tasks, as well as the search and analysis of not yet known to the scientific and practical society approaches, techniques and methods developed in various fields of activity and by individual specialists. Such a clear system should expand the knowledge and skills of designers, make their creative search more conscious and effective, which should ultimately raise the quality of design decisions.
Keywords: design, design theory, architecture theory, methods of finding creative solutions, techniques of finding creative solutions, methodology of design.