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Exploration is the process of generating and evaluating design alternatives that normally would not be considered. Normal synthesis processes, such as search, are aimed at considering only those design alternatives that are within the solution space defined by the governing criteria. An exploratory process, on the other hand, tries to generate a wide variety of alternatives from outside the solution space, some of which may unearth new opportunities or solve design problems in unexpected ways.
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Navinchandra, D. (1991). Design Exploration. In: Exploration and Innovation in Design. Symbolic Computation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3114-1_5
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