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The research cluster has two sets of objectives:

The objectives to establish the community:

	To bring together researchers from different disciplines to identify contributions to theoretical, methodological and applied problems in creative design;
	To establish new research collaborations to address the current and emerging challenges of understanding and supporting group creativity;
	To provide a research and information exchange for research in creative design.

The research objectives, which the community will address:

	To consider the fundamental nature of group creativity and to identify how the represented design disciplines can contribute to gaining a fuller understanding of creativity;
	To establish the current principles, models, methods, and tools used within the different contributing disciplines to support teams engaged in innovative and creative design, and identify opportunities and challenges;
	To identify how the different disciplines understand, teach, model and assess creative design and the resulting solutions;
	To address the research problems of assessing current technological support for group creativity in design, and developing future design-support tools;
	To formulate a prioritized agenda of research issues on group creativity in design supported by 21st Century technology.