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Abstract. We describe a design synthesizing process which has been pointed out to be a key to creative design. We describe two topics of design study. First, from the perspectives of creativity, the conceptsynthesizing process is formed with the 1st primitive of the conceptsynthesizing process being ‘concept abstraction’ with the principle of ‘similarity’ in ‘taxonomical relations’, the 2nd primitive being ‘concept blending,’ in which the principle is ‘similarity’ and ‘dissimilarity’ in ‘taxonomical relations’, and the 3rd primitive being ‘concept integration’ and with the principle of ‘thematic relations’. Second, design experiments using protocol analysis were conducted to identify what/how design primitives are related to higher creativity. As a result, in the process of synthesizing concepts, thematic relations between two concepts significantly extend the design space, which led to higher creativity. Given this, the creative design process can be driven by the 3rd primitive of the concept-synthesizing process.
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NAGAI, Y., TAURA, T. (2006). FORMALDESCRIPTION OF CONCEPT-SYNTHESIZING PROCESS FOR CREATIVE DESIGN. In: GERO, J.S. (eds) Design Computing and Cognition ’06. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5131-9_23
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