Abstract
Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds sway in some quarters as providing valuable insights into design and the use of computers in design. AI seems to be grounded within the ‘traditional’ epistemology and ontology of Descartes. There are problems with AI in design, however, attributable to the tacit acceptance of this limited ontology. In contrast, the ontology of Heidegger asserts the primacy of the inconspicuous world of total involvement as the start of an understanding of being. A Heideggerian view displaces computation as the basis of understanding. In this article the workings of metaphor are posited as the bases of an alternative understanding of design. Computation is just one of many metaphors we have at our disposal for understanding design, and is open for evaluation in terms of its usefulness for design.
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