The project Design Dialogues pursues the intention to find out how AI tools work, to what extent they can enhance design techniques, when they simplify processes and where they ultimately reach their limits.
The goal is to explore methods that make it possible, first, to guide dialogic creativity processes and, second, to understand the interaction between humans and machines. This involves investigating how interactions and dialogues influence the design outcome, especially with respect to decision making, which is a main component of the design process. These decisions include aspects such as creation, iteration, and curation.
How can one approach design with AI tools in a playful and experimental way?
How can one develop a working principle for the co-designing process between humans and AI?
How can one prepare, archive and make accessible co-designed results?
THESIS
There is an urgent need for designers to engage with intelligent systems and their function as co-designing tools. First, to reduce the fear of new technologies. Second, to define a clear distribution of tasks and roles between humans and machines. And third, to work out human strengths and areas of responsibility with regard to the design profession of the future.
Innovation thrusts always lead to major societal changes. For designers today, this means that their tasks will increasingly shift from pure production tasks to creative ideation, strategy and the design of AI outputs.
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