yes,
terry,
i learned about design space from horst rittel who mentioned zwicky's morphology in the late 1950s to early 1960's. i recently stumbled upon a youtube and was surprised to see him talking about that. naturally, that conception became a defining part of "the semantic turn; a new foundation for design."
klaus
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Dear Stuart,
The current origins of the terms 'design space' are from design researchers with a mathematical background.
The use of the term 'design space' in the current body of work on design and design research goes back to the 70s at least. Around 1972, I was writing reports on design research projects using it. It was common language along with the ideas of solution space, problem space, search space, and the mathematical modelling of such spaces from the point of view of identifying optimal design solutions.
It was also evident in the mid-60s in the work of Zwicky and colleagues using morphological analysis to find optimal solutions for what later became known as wicked problems. This was when causal modelling methods were not so well developed for complex situations.
You can also see some evidence of the idea of design space in many translations of publications of early Islamic science. I haven't checked but I'd also expect to find it in Patanjali's works.
From memory, there is substantial use of the term in Design Studies papers relating to architecture in the 1980s. In that case it accompanied the application of neural nets and other AI methods to architecture and urban planning.
Best wishes,
Terence
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Hi
I wondered whether anyone here had any references to any discussions about the term "design space".
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