摘要：The cultivation of design talents involves fostering not only basic design ability through design education, but also the ability to solve complex problems, reflect and innovate. The content of traditional metalsmithing courses is mainly based on technical practice. This course intends to enhance students’ design thinking by prompting a metalwork design through ready-made objects to flip inertial and encourage out-of-the-box design thinking. The purpose of this research is to see how ready-made objects as a media could intervene in educational practice to stimulate students’ creative thinking and strengthen their “4I” abilities: Imagination, Insight, Ideation, and Identification. Further, applying the Double Diamond model as a teaching framework to guide students’ innovative thinking and imagination training in the learning process, this research conducts qualitative data analysis through teaching observation, learning process, feedback reflection, interview data, and work achievement. The results show that the ready-made object intervention in educational practice does help students form a contextual design and present multi-faceted creative results.
