It’s either the next big thing in education – or the greatest threat to our profession we’ve ever seen. Whatever your opinion of AI, there’s no denying its popularity in the classroom. A recent Walton Family Foundation survey of 2,000 K-12 students found more than one in five of them are already using ChatGPT to… Read More »Education and Ethics of AI
The mediated landscape lab is a studio-based environment where conventional approaches to landscape architecture, ideation, and technology are explored to create speculative futures. Layering the impacts of climate change and demographics become prompts to predict the future. In this In Between session, Marc Miller discusses how he uses AI to image landscapes of the near… Read More »The Mediated Landscape Lab
Micca and Rachel will share on the benefits and implementation of using MIRO in the classroom to foster collaboration and enhance student engagement in graphic communication classes at NAFA. The use of MIRO facilitates visual learning and encourages active participation among students. Outside of the classroom, the platform allows students to collaborate in real-time, allowing… Read More »Benefits and implementation of using MIRO in the classroom
(Open the event description to read more.) A panel of art and design students will discuss their experiences and perspectives on the uses of AI. Panelists include: Stephany Silva Fajardo (Penn State) Briana Hacksisombath (Texas) Tallulah Moynihan (The New School) Yiyang Lu (UAL) Read the panelist bios. Sign up for the DIB. Check your local… Read More »Students on AI
About: Danielle Royer will share her development and prototype of an augmented reality (AR) project focusing on removing barriers for disabled students at UAL. She used inclusive design methodologies to inform the use of AR as immersive technology that can be accessed using tablets and phones. It is designed to support students with wayfinding, health… Read More »Inclusive Design & Immersive Technology
Description: Within the realm of design (interiors and architecture), there is a prioritization of westernized ideals that dictate materiality, spatial organization, interaction and form. Often, the messiness of the domestic sphere is excluded from these conversations, in favor of modernization, cleanliness, and hard materials. By centering and prioritizing the body within our approach to interiority… Read More »Space for Many: Designing Soft, Pliable Public Spaces
A celebration and critique of technology in an age of chaos. The early 21st Century will be presented as a defining period in human cultural evolution, and the challenges faced unprecedented on a global scale. Climate change, and it’s likely consequences, food and water scarcity, mass migration, and uninhabitable environments, will be conceptualised as an… Read More »An Unfinished Manifesto for Arts Education in the Age of Chaos & Technology
Glitch art represents a critical intersection between artistic practice and academic inquiry, challenging established paradigms of digital aesthetics, authorship, and the concept of error. As a disruptive force within digital culture, glitch art offers unique opportunities to explore innovative methodologies in art production, media and design while questioning the cultural, social, and philosophical implications of… Read More »Error Aesthetics: Glitch Art as a Nexus of Creation and Theory
For nearly a decade, Families Learning Together (FLT) has explored the intersections of art, design, and creative computing through a community-based, intergenerational learning model. Anchored at the Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos and the San Marcos Public Library, FLT invites families, youth, elders, university students, and K-12 educators to engage in computational storymaking, dramatic… Read More »Families Learning Together: Expressive STEM Inquiry in San Marcos, TX
We bring a unique set of lived experiences to our practice as educators, artists, designers, and learners. When we use artificial intelligence tools to supplement or enhance our work through a humanistic lens, we use it as an extension of ourselves seeking to learn or create something new. In initial use of AI, we can… Read More »Interrogating AI: Positionality and identity of artificial intelligence
