Highlights•Parametric design thinking (PDT) presents a new horizon for research and
practice in design studies.•PDT incorporates disciplinary knowledge, including process …

Highlights•Survey on the most preferred inspiration sources and methods designers
use.•Student designers prefer to use images over objects, and the latter more than …

Virtual reality (VR) is an emerging technology that is being used in a wide range of fields
such as medicine, gaming, psychology and sociology. The use of VR is promising in the field …

A pedagogical framework for design learning and design teaching termed Think-Maps is
introduced, presented and demonstrated. In this framework, domain knowledge becomes …

This paper presents a hypothesis about design education that is framed within and derived
from cognitive theories of learning. The relevance of design thinking and cognitive …

Emergence has been widely recognized as a significant phenomenon of visual reasoning in
design. Despite its centrality as a cognitive phenomenon, research in emergence currently …

A computational model for the organization of design precedent knowledge is developed.
The model is composed of distinct chunks of knowledge called design stories. A formalism …

Previous studies have demonstrated the importance of sketching in design cognition,
particularly in the early stages of engineering design. The goal of this preliminary study is to …

In this paper, a parametric shape grammar which can generate the plans of traditional
Turkish houses is presented. The grammar is based on a corpus of traditional Turkish …

Given the growing interest in “upstream” collaborative projects between designers and
materials scientists, it is crucial to scrutinize designers' creative contribution to materials …