Week 9: Force Connections 1

What is Force Connections?

Force Connections is a way of describing the act of combining 2 or more unrelated 

things to express a new message. One of the methods of establishing such connection is by SCAMPER.

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This is a method to create new items. 

There are a lot of objects that had been invented in a way that it is more convenient to use. 

Here are a few examples:

1. Pencil
2. Language
3. Skateboard
4. Life Jacket
5. Rubber baking tray 
6. Roller Skates
7. Flippers

 Let's take flippers as an example. Flippers is an object that help people to move 

through water more efficiently as human feet are to small. They combine a shoe and rubber

look a-like animal feet to form flippers so it will be easier for people to swim. 

This is one way of Force Connections. 

From this lesson, i've learn that there are actually alot of things that is made using forced connections. We can also create a new product of we were to use the SCAMPER method.