A I D 98 Emergence in Design Adv Isory Com Mitt Ee : Emergence in Design Tentative Format and Agenda Functional Emergence a Position Paper

A workshop to be held in conjunction with Artificial Intelligence in Design'98 19 July 1998, Lisbon, Portugal " We don't know what we're looking for until we find it, so we have to find a way to look for it! " An identifiable design property which has not been explicitly represented can be said to be emergent. Discovering and using the emergent properties in design is regarded as emergence in design. Recognizing emergent phenomena is an important part of innovative or creative design and like innovation or creativity, it resists definition. Much has been written about emergence in the context of cognitive science and visual representation , but little exploration has been done with regard to design in general, with the bulk of the research in shape grammars. This workshop aims to bring together design researchers to discuss topics relating to emergence in design, including • identifying examples of emergence; • describing systems which support emergence and the representations necessary to achieve emergence; • methods to identify emergent phenomena; and • the advantages and disadvantages of emergence. Workshop Topics Discussion will address a number of questions; among those are: • What do we mean by emergence? • How does design emergence differ from design evolution? • What different types of emergence can one identify? For example, is it possible to describe functional emergence? • Is a system that supports emergence necessarily preferable to one that doesn't? What about the ambiguity that emergence can introduce? • Are emergent-savvy systems a realistic goal for design researchers? The workshop will be structured around succinct keynote presentations (selected from the submissions) followed by open discussion. Our discussion will be directed to articulate an answer to one or more of the key questions posed above. Position Papers We seek position papers or extended abstracts addressing any of the above questions, or describing design systems which are capable of supporting emergence. Papers which offer examples of emergence in design are strongly encouraged. Papers should be no more than seven pages in length. Submissions will be reviewed by the international advisory committee, and will be selected on the basis of their contribution to the topics under discussion. To assure smooth running of the workshop, we would like all workshop participants to prepare for participation in three ways: • Read the papers submitted to the workshop. These can be found at • Prepare an exceedingly brief set of …