Drawing on principles of emergent design, we wish to encourage open-ended experimentation within communities of diverse experience, skill, and domain expertise, allowing new connections, patterns, and approaches to emerge. Recalling the paradoxical Hebrew image of 鈥渢he face of the deep鈥� (鈥榓l pney-tehom) from the first creation myth in the book of Genesis, we conceive emergent design as a generative process in which new possibilities may surface from the primordial, seemingly chaotic depths of undetermined, interactive play.
Design thinking is what you do when you have only a vague sense of where you want to go, no idea of how to get there, and don't even know what you need to know. It is a discovery process that does experiments to find out next steps.