ABSTRACT
Connectionist models can be used to model important aspects of design reasoning: the way design involves memory; and a ‘holistic’ kind of reasoning by which designs appear to emerge from that memory. A simple connectionist model is constructed to demonstrate how information about schemas (in this case, room types) is stored implicitly after exposure to a number of examples of specific rooms. Using connectionist models as a basis for reasoning, new room types can emerge from this information.
