Studying Visual and Spatial Reasoning for Design Creativity

Chapter 1 Navigating Complex Buildings: Cognition, Neuroscience and Architectural Design

Chapter 2 Showing Connection

Chapter 3 The Theoretical Framework for Creative Visual Thinking

Chapter 4 Sortal Grammars for Urban Design

Chapter 5 Raising the i-Factor: Bridging Parametric Shape and Parametric Design

Chapter 6 Dialectical Creativity: Sketch-Negate-Create

Chapter 7 Spatial Computing for Design—an Artificial Intelligence Perspective

Chapter 8 SIRN—Synergetic Inter-Representation Networks: An Approach to Urban Planning and Design with Implications to Visual Reasoning and Design Creativity

Chapter 9 Qualitative Spatial-Relation Reasoning for Design

Chapter 10 Thinking About Spatial Thinking: New Typology, New Assessments

Chapter 11 Visual-Object Versus Visual-Spatial Representations: Insights from Studying Visualization in Artists and Scientists

Chapter 12 Ubiquitous Serendipity: Potential Visual Design Stimuli are Everywhere

Chapter 13 On Abstraction and Ambiguity

Chapter 14 Creative States: A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach to Understanding and Improving Creativity in Design

Chapter 15 Spatial Transformations of Scene Stimuli: It’s an Upright World