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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

Insects always seem to know when the weather is about to change. Ants work faster, and many flying insects just seem to disappear.

Design a special weather reporting service that is based on observation of insects. Include the following in your plan:

  • the name/title of the service
  • an example of the way a report would be read out on the radio or T.V.

Divide your sheet of paper up into four sections, and place one of the perspectives in each part.

Windy weather is one of our most wasted resources. Redesign the following so that they are fully wind-powered:

  • oil tankers
  • cars
  • rollerblades.

Life in Atlantis, an ancient mythical city deep under the ocean, would have been very different to our present land-based lifestyles.

Write down how these aquarian people would have done the following:

  • have a drink
  • cook their food
  • warm up their houses.

Draw a timelapse photographic sequence of one of your favourite outdoor locations.

Compress the last twenty million years into just twenty frames.

Draw what the same tree would look like from the perspective of:

  • an elephant
  • an ant
  • a human
  • another tree.