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14 - Multicultural Experience Fosters Creative Conceptual Expansion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Angela K.-y. Leung
Affiliation:
Singapore Management University
Chi-yue Chiu
Affiliation:
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Ying-yi Hong
Affiliation:
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Summary

Before you read on, take two minutes to draw a picture of an innovative kind of chocolate. Don't think too hard. Just draw it quickly.

This task was presented to the many designers, artists, and students from all over the world who took part in the Belgian chocolate initiative project organized by the Addict Creative Lab. When the famous Belgian chocolate company Isis Luxury approached this ethnically and functionally diverse group to brainstorm product branding and packaging strategies to enhance the product's marketability, Giovanna Massini, the Addict Creative Lab researcher who led the chocolate project, advised his lab members: “Chocolate in Belgium is an icon, like pasta in Italy. But why do we feel obliged by tradition? We must disturb the traditional shapes. We must create new combinations, new ingredients.”

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Cultural Processes
A Social Psychological Perspective
, pp. 263 - 285
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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