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Get ready for a veritable feast of innovative thinking. Please find below, a list of 130 innovative projects that can stretch anyone's thinking. Some may be completed in 5 mins. Others might take days. The focus for these thinking projects? Innovation, creativity and outright wonder.
Thinking Provocations

While travelling on a microscopic ride through a human body, you become caught inside a main vein that leads directly to the heart. You can now see the massive structure just in front of you.

Describe what it would:

  • look like to your eyes
  • sound like in your ears
  • smell like through your nose
  • feel like in your emotions.

Without any talking or prior discussion, hold onto one pencil with another person and draw a sports car.

Then try to draw a house, with three people holding onto one pencil.

Many people enjoy fishing, but others claim that the use of a sharp hook is cruel to the fish.

Design an innovative new way of catching fish one at a time so that they are killed in a painless manner.

In basketball, one team usually wins and the other team loses. Change the rules of the game so that the two teams will always be on the same score at the final siren.

Clearly write out these new rules in a proper sequence.

Think of your favourite book, and choose one of the really interesting parts of the story.

Now re-write and draw that scene into ‘comic book’ format (six squares per page would work well).

You have become hopelessly lost in the middle of an unknown swamp. You have no compass or any other equipment.

Brainstorm at least three ways that you could work out in which direction North would be.