The choice of something to ruin can be an implicit choice as to what should be preserved.  A heuristic for preservation can thus lead to a heuristic for ruin.  I've had what I think is a very interesting result for what to preserve (common solution components) in the context of genetic crossover operators that use constructive (as opposed to iterative) heuristics.  I tried to share it with the Ruin and Recreate community with no success.

I guess my real question is -- How should I Ruin and Recreate this research to make it more relevant to Ruin and Recreate researchers?

Conference Paper The GENIE is out! (Who needs fitness to evolve?)