Blue Sky research concept

Abstract

This investigation relates design process to systemic thinking and focuses on the first stage of design process, on a kind of research called blue sky research. This research corresponds to a form of organization of references to the project. This special kind of knowledge uses the concept of constant proposed by professor Flaviano Celaschi. According to this concept, there are patterns of human behavior that repeat themselves throughout history. The designers can represent these patterns, called constants, in many different ways in each time period. The project set up for an enterprise and the study about the blue sky survey concept developed in it are thus analyzed.