To Make or to Create? What Should Students of Design be Taught?

The purpose of this paper is to offer a definition of creativity as a distinct kind of thinking, one that is diametrically opposed to making. Once the difference between creating and making becomes clear, we might better understand what we mean when we say that design educators should encourage students, even teach students, to be creative. It also allows us to better understand what we are losing when we favor the intellectual activity of creating over the intellectual activity of making.