The many (re)turns of AI
As in other areas of life, the influx of AI technologies into design can be felt as a turning of outcomes and experiences into flat, generic formats; prompted into reality. However, we also observe more nuanced turnings: towards materiality, craft, taste; towards a reconsideration of the role of technology, human and their relations in the processes of form-giving. We see how designers respond to AI technologies within their practices, and how this reconfigures their processes, outcomes and identities. Similarly, we see the turnings of the design cosmos, of scholarly discourse. We see questions of authorship, control, novelty, skill, politics, sustainability and more regain much needed urgency through the inescapable need of reckoning with the capacities and limitations of AI technologies.
Join us for an unconventional view into the many returns of AI technologies on, in and through design; a live view into the guts of contemporary design research practice and scholarship alike.
