Algorithms and Inspirations:
Creative Reuse of Design Experience
Algorithms and Inspirations:
Creative Reuse of Design Experience
Engineering Design Centre, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, De Montfort University, Milton Keynes, UK.
Engineering Design Centre, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
Proceedings of the Greenwich 2000 Symposium: Digital Creativity
University of Greenwich, January 2000, pp 1-10.
ABSTRACT. Selecting and adapting sources of inspiration are both vital parts of designing. This paper reformulates the traditional view of designing as a cycle of problem formulation -- synthesis -- evaluation to give due importance to source selection. It surveys the uses of sources of inspiration in different types of design, and highlights the similarities and contrasts between the use of sources of inspiration by human designers and the use of sources in generative systems for automatic design. In fields with under-specified design tasks, selecting appropriate sources plays an essential part of formulating the problems. Where the tasks are well-specified the locus of creative endeavour is in the adaptation of previous designs and other sources to meet new demands.
KEYWORDS. Sources of inspiration, adaptive design, design reuse, precedents, generative systems, shape grammars, creativity.
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Claudia Eckert
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Martin Stacey
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John Clarkson
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