An invitation only workshop.

Design has become a fruitful research area for cognitive scientists and computer scientists as well as for design scientists. For cognitive scientists it represents a particularly rich and open environment within which to study complex human behavior. For computer scientists it represents a challenging area. For design scientists the tools to study and model designers are only now becoming available. For neuroscientists design is largely a novel domain.

Design involves the creation of worlds and entails the interaction between minds and the representations of artefacts they produce. This opens a variety of areas for study since designers work with tools, operate solely or within teams, and collaborate with others who are co-located or at a distance. Designers use external symbol systems extensively, particularly sketches, which implies a high level of visual and spatial reasoning.

This workshop provides a unique forum that brings together researchers from design science, computer science, cognitive science and neuroscience who are studying visual and spatial reasoning in their own ways, within an overarching framework of studying design creativity.

Sponsors
Primary Sponsor
US National Science Foundation

Other Sponsors
Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study
University of Provence (Aix-Marseille 1)
IUFM