Discovery processes in designing
Abstract
Recent studies of creative deisgning have focused on unexpected dicoveries made when deigners ae working during protocol sessions and have sought contributing factors in session activities such as sketching. however recorded sessions are blind to potentially signficant activity occurring while deisngers are not being observed working. this leves them ill-equipped to addess a geenral issue of whteher creative thinking involves different processes to normal thinking. the research described below aims to resolve this shortcoming, by focusing on actions and discoveries of desigenrs while they are not consiously working, as well as when they are .an interview study involving 30-40 expoereicned arhtiects is being implemneted, strting wiht a pilot study of 5 sdeisngers., now compelted. the itnerviews focus on how deisngersmanage their crative activity and on breakthroughs and unexpected discoveries made throughout conceptual deisgn. insightfulness of the discoveries, absed on Gestalt insight concepts,, is assessed. the relative significance of discoveries made during active deisgn sessions (called hot discoveries) and at othet times (clled cold discoveries) is also considred. the pilot study described in this paper, indicates that deingers adopt diffrent emthods of discontinuing deigning to ahcive deisgn breakthroughs and that cold discoverieis may be more importnt than is currently recognised.
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