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This bit of Simon has stuck in my head, over the years, as an indication that he didn't have much grasp of painting as a creative activity and as an indication that he mistook the kind of iteration that is typical of problem solving as the key to imaginative activity: "Making complex designs that are implemented over a long period of time and continually modified in the course of implementation has much in common with painting in oil. In oil painting every new spot of pigment laid on the canvas creates some kind of pattern that provides a continuing source of new ideas to the painter. The painting process is a process of cyclical interaction between painter and canvas in which current goals lead to new applications of paint, while the gradually changing pattern suggests new goals." (Simon, Herbert A. The Sciences of the Artificial. 3rd ed. London: MIT Press, 1996. P.163) ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------