Feb 17, 2005
Emergent Aesthetics

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comment of referee 1

The proposed concept seems interesting, but the text is not convincing. Some “results” of the process should be exhibited and discussed. In the present state, the article is nothing more than an intention, a proposal, at best a research program. Therefore, «until the experiment is carried out» (p.4), we cannot express any relevant judgment on this research.


assessment: 1 points (rejected)


 

comment of referee 2

I find this paper very thought provoking and might carry important implication for design research. The author will receive much more sympathy if real samples of emergent aesthetics are shown. and please do provide a bibilography. it is for our students as our field do not have so many formalized bibilography.


assessment: 10 points (accepted)


 

comment of referee 3

Reviewer 1 is right: the paper is hard to assess, because no "results" are presented so far.

The author describes the proposal for an artificial "aesthetic universe", which is to serve as an experimental field for the examination of different (emergent) aesthetics (bottom-up instead of top-down aesthetics).

The project is in a very early stage, apparently consisting of a simple prototype. The claim that it is "non human-centric" does not really hold, because all elements and rules are established by the (human) designer.

Nonetheless it would be interesting to have a clear description of the experimental setting and process, to see some results and to have the future perspectives in some more detail.


assessment: 6 points (acc. with revisions)


 

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