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Research for Cultural DNA in Design

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This position paper commences with a brief overview of where the cultural DNA may lie in the enterprise of designing. It puts forward the concept that cultural DNA is not a unitary concept and needs to be treated multi-dimensionally deriving from multiple sources. The paper outlines research that supports cultural DNA research in design.

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Acknowledgements

The research reported in this paper has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, Grant Nos. CMMI-1400466, SBE-0915482 and CNS-0745390 and by the National Aeronautics and Space Agency, Grant No. UAH SUB2012-038.

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Gero, J.S. (2018). Research for Cultural DNA in Design. In: Lee, JH. (eds) Computational Studies on Cultural Variation and Heredity. KAIST Research Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8189-7_1

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