Purpose and function in design: from the socio-cultural to the techno-physical

✍ Scribed by M.A Rosenman; J.S Gero

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 859 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0142-694X
• DOI: 10.1016/s0142-694x(97)00033-1

✦ Synopsis

Design as exploration: puzzle-making and puzzle solving. In Exploration-Based Models of Design and Search-Based Models of Design, Work- shop Notes AID '92. CMU, Pittsburgh (June 1992) 2 Smithers, T On knowledge level theories of design process. In Artificial Intelligence in Design '96, eds J. S. Gero and F. Sudweeks. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht (1996) pp 561-579

D esign proceeds from a conceptual description of a need to a concrete description of an artefact as a solution to a problem created as a representation of this need. The process of moving from needs to a problem statement to a syntactic description is not a simple linear or tree-like decomposition, but involves many iterations and reformulations in what has been described as an exploration-search or problem-making/problem-solving process by Smithers 1,2 . Nevertheless, there is a clear shift from a semantic to a syntactic description, from