Green Hat Thinking De Bono

Green Hat Thinking De Bono

Urban design is a creative process that allows the agencies to utilize the resources differently to provide an experience to the citizens. As various ideologies are inherently connected to urban designing processes. Therefore, it is the responsibility of urban designers or thinkers to make themselves aware to respond to different ethical frameworks with their critical thinking process for the future of our cities to remain sustainable.

A very simple model developed by De Bono in the form of wearing different colored hats can be used to greatly enhance critical thinking and create opportunities for solving any problems (Kivunja 2015). To generate creative design interventions that will come up with advanced thinking and new approaches to solving problems De Bono (1982), the ‘Green Hat Thinking’ method will be followed in this section analysis of the facts and factors from phase one and phase two. De Bono (1992b) suggests four types of activities that can be used to teach students how to use this hat: 1) Generating reactive ideas, 2) Generating starting ideas, 3) Generating further and better ideas, and 4) Generating new ideas.