SOME ISSUES CONCERNING THE USE OF DESIGN SPACE FORMALISMS IN CREATIVE DOMAINS

DS 89: Proceedings of The Fifth International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC 2018), University of Bath, Bath, UK

Year: 2018
Editor: Elies Dekoninck, Andrew Wodehouse, Chris Snider, Georgi Georgiev, Gaetano Cascini
Author: Alexandros Charidis
Series: ICDC
Section: ZIBALDONE
Page(s): 150-159
ISBN: 9781912254071

Abstract

In this paper, an analytical examination of two types of classical design space formalisms is presented. Compositional aspects in each type of design space are examined in terms of the units and the rules given to synthesize descriptions of designs. A uniform treatment of the technical concepts underlying both types is developed based on shapes and on computations defined in terms of shapes. Issues concerning the use of both types of design space formalisms for synthesis tasks in creative domains are discussed. Alternative directions are outlined that reframe classical conceptualizations of design spaces in ways that emphasize the open-ended, improvisational nature of creative work in design.

Keywords: Design space, shape grammars, creative reasoning, design description

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