CREATIVITY, EMERGENCE AND EVOLUTION IN DESIGN

This paper commences by outlining notions of creativity before examini ng the role of emergence in creative design. Various process models of emergence are presented; these are based on notions of additive and s ubstitutive variables resulting in additive and substitutive schemas. Frameworks for both representation and process for a computational mod el of creative design are presented. The representational framework is based on design prototypes whilst the process framework is based on a n evolutionary model. The computational model brings both representati on and process together.