The Seventh Annual International Conference of the International Systems Institue on the Comprehensive Design of Evolutionary Learning Systems

D-Gang is a research team that began as "Group D" or the Design Culture group in the ISI Conversation Events prior to the 1990's and has evolved over the yearly meetings through progressionof ever more finely tuned research foci. In 1990 and '91 we were concerned with defining the concept of a  "design culture"; by '92 the quest was for the principles and steps to guide designin communities; in '93 we focsed on the components for building a design culture (the design principles, the learning system, and the resources or "tools" of design); by '94 we evolved fromam a Group to a Gang and focused our efforts on the relational dynamics amoung the components previously identified, and in '95 we sought to consider what would be a deign culture that would enable trasnendence, and in the process, reached an impasse in our own transendence as a research team with unity of purpose.