Jack Carroll at Penn State brought together a score of researchers with backgrounds and interests in design rationale, creativity and design to consider their intersections.

Creativity and rationale connote the complementary natures of design: creating new worlds through lightning bolts of innovation versus analyzing the underlying tradeoffs in current artifacts and systems to guide the incremental development of new ones. The workshop premise is that these poles should not be merely opposed world-views, and that coordinating them and integrating them is a key to ever having a serious Science of Design.

Creativity and Rationale in Software Design