Generative design: a paradigm for design research

Jon McCormack, Alan Dorin, Troy Innocent
Centre for Electronic Media Art
Monash University, Clayton 3800, Australia

Generative design offers new modes of aesthetic experience based on the incorporation of system dynamics into the production of artifact and experience. In this paper, we review a number of processes that can be explored by designers and suggest how design as a discipline can benefit from this research. These processes include self-organization, swarm systems and ant colonies, evolution, and generative grammars. We give example applications of these processes to creativity and design.
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jonmc/research/Papers/genDesignFG04.pdf