Ideate Stage Quiz – Campus Edition

Choose the most suitable ideation technique for each scenario below.

1. Students brainstorm ways to make the library more engaging, but must first warm up by sharing the most ridiculous ideas they can imagine to loosen creativity.
2. The sustainability club writes down ideas to reduce cafeteria waste, then passes their sheets around so peers can add or modify suggestions silently.
3. A design group draws a central bubble labeled “Campus Wellbeing,” connecting branches such as “Mental Health,” “Physical Health,” and “Social Spaces.”
4. To improve the campus bus system, a team uses “Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Eliminate, Reverse” prompts to rethink routes and schedules.
5. Architecture students each fold paper into eight panels and quickly sketch eight layout ideas for an eco-friendly dorm room in eight minutes.
6. Students explore how airports streamline passenger flow to inspire better movement design for crowded hallways between classes.
7. After generating 30 new ideas for student engagement, the team uses colored stickers to vote on which ones to develop further.
8. The group explores unrelated fields, like how streaming apps retain viewers, to inspire new ways of keeping students attending workshops.
9. During a creativity session, the facilitator tells everyone to think of as many new club activities as possible — no idea is too wild or silly.
10. The student council narrows dozens of event ideas to a final shortlist by combining similar options and removing duplicates.