Digital Culture and Research Creation - DEL In Between
2023-04-14 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/London)
Three faculty in electronic literature present their recent research using AI generative platforms, game interfaces, and creative coding.
Panellists:
All panellists are faculty in the Digital Culture program, University of Bergen, Norway.:

Alinta Krauth
Jason Nelson
Scott Rettberg

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Perspectives in Generative AI - DEL In Between
2023-05-12 14:00 - 15:00
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Large language models like ChatGPT and Bard, along with text to image generators such as Dall-E and Midjourney have gained worldwide attention over the past several months. This has resulted in much discussion about the use of these tools within higher education.
In this DEL In Between, we will hear the teacher and student perspectives on generative AI tools within art and design higher education, and how they are being used in curriculum. The hour long event will be part presentation, part workshop, and with space for questions and discussion.
Panelists:

Mark Randall, Assistant Professor of Design Strategies (Parsons – The New School)
Tench Cholnoky, Student (BFA Design and Technology, Parsons & BA Sociology Lang)
Caroline Stevenson, Programme Director: Cultural & Historical Studies (London College of Fashion, UAL)

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Digitally Engaged Learning Conference 2023
2023-09-21 - 2023-09-22
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Welcome
2023-09-21 12:45 - 13:00 | NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 5-36 (SU)
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Join Sheldon Chow (Associate Dean Learning Teaching and Enhancement) and Dr. Danielle Tran (Reader – Director of Education) from our host University of the Arts London as they welcome you to DEL 2023.

Fostering Resistance through Digital Cultures and Art Pedagogies: Exploring Emerging Trends
2023-09-21 14:10 - 15:10 | NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 6-14 (PC)
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This panel explores the intersections of power, oppression, and resistance in digital culture, and strategies for integrating these themes into art education. Through our pedagogical approaches, we question biases and inequities in digital realities.
Three PhD candidates in art education will share emerging teaching strategies for increasing learners’ awareness of digital inequities as well as forms of resistance. Panelists’ research areas include Cyberfeminism as a liberatory framework for digital art pedagogy through the lens of the Saudi feminist movement, the theorization of a glitch feminist art pedagogy for raising digital critical consciousness, and embodied engagement with DALL-E 2 to expose biases embedded in AI systems.
Presenters:

Ye Sul Park, PhD Candidate (Penn State)
Maggie-Rose Condit-Summerson, PhD Candidate (Penn State)
Fouz Aljameel, PhD Candidate (Penn State)

From Reality to Concept – Cultivating Studio Practice Online
2023-09-21 14:10 - 15:10 | NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 5-36 (SU)
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This session explores the teaching and learning realities across the ‘new space’ of the virtual studio – by sharing the journey Falmouth University has taken over the past three years, as well as enabling participants to engage with this space and discuss their experience.
Attendees will gain an appreciation of the opportunities offered by the online studio, prompting considerations on how to adapt and apply this approach to different tools and situations within their own practice.
Presenters:

Amy Sampson, Head of Digital Learning (Falmouth University)
Aideen Gibson, Learning Designer (Falmouth University)
Vicki Weavers, Learning Designer (Falmouth University)

Session type: DYO

Hangul Project: bilingual and intercultural experiences between English and Korean
2023-09-21 15:20 - 16:20 | NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 6-14 (PC)
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This panel will present and discuss bilingual and intercultural experiences between English and Korean as experiential visual dialects. It articulates new visual narratives from intercultural perspectives. It employs the Hangul alphabet, an English typeface designed using Korean consonants and vowels for a translingual experience. It is multidisciplinary visual research using diverse mediums, from typeface design, woodworking, digital art, and 3D printing to game performance. Each medium delivers intercultural experiences as impressionistic, narrative, tactile, and playable. It will suggest the new dimensional visual narrative and function from conventional to contemporary mediums with the latest technology.
Presenters:

Taekyeom Lee, Assistant Professor (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Yeohyun Ahn, Assistant Professor (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Chanee Choi, Assistant Professor (University of New Mexico)
Shin Yeon Jeon, Visiting Assistant Professor (University of Toledo)

Session type: Panel

Future Echoes? A prologue & a tale
2023-09-21 15:20 - 16:20 | NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 5-36 (SU)
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Whether we have individually given our consent or not, as a human society we have a collective unspoken agreement in favour of open access to creative endeavour. Instead of feeling redundant, in danger, or that we are heading into a dystopian future, we can show strength in this agreement as artists and educators. We can help to positively refine and safeguard through collective action and behaviours. Using concepts from Chaucer’s 14th century The Franklin’s Tale, in which a student-magician has the potential to
disrupt the lives and futures of the characters through technology, we draw parallels between the similar 21st century brink at which we find ourselves. We are now all the creators of stories, we are now all the student-magician.
Presenters:

Natasha Bonnelame (London College of Fashion, UAL)
Andy Lee, Teaching & Innovation Lead (London College of Fashion, UAL)
Nadia Malik, Programme Director: Performance (London College of Fashion, UAL)
Ben Turnbull, Lecturer in Performance Technology and Design (London College of Fashion, UAL)

Session type: DYO

Learning spatial audio with the Open Ambisonics Toolkit
2023-09-21 16:20 - 16:50 | NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 5-36 (SU)
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With the recent extension of application of spatial audio in the entertainment industries, an increasing number of academic institutions are renewing their interest in the subject. However, the plethora of techniques and practices, together with the relative novelty of them, has resulted in a lack of a methodology for teaching these technologies. This served as a motivation for our team to develop the Open
Ambisonics Toolkit (OAT): a modular educational method for institutions and individuals alike, offering a standardised and gradual theoretical introduction and promoting a democratisation of spatial audio through a DIY approach. We describe the overall design of OAT and discusses its use in an exploration-based creative media curriculum.
Presenters:

Dr. Per Magnus Lindborg, Associate Professor (City University of Hong Kong)
Giuseppe Pisano, PhD student (Norwegian Academy of Music)

Session type: Case Study

‘Lurkers’ in the Fashion Business School: A study of learning participation in Online Classrooms
2023-09-21 16:20 - 17:20 | NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 6-14 (PC)
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This dissertation researches learning in online classrooms. Those who participate are known as ‘posters’, those who remain silent, ‘lurkers’. Online learning has grown exponentially since 2020, due to Covid-19 and use of technology. Education can be accessed via internet platforms in real-time or asynchronously. This began as a portfolio of how I taught online, grew to a pilot study and then to an investigation focusing on those who identify as ‘lurkers’ to understand how they learn. The methodology follows an interpretivist approach. This was deliberate to give qualitative insight to balance the abundance of existing quantitative data which is often biased presenting a negative view of those who only participate infrequently, or not at all
Presenter: Stephanie Liberman, Senior Lecturer (London College of Fashion (UAL))
Session type: Case Study

Beyond Word Clouds: Case Studies of Visualizing Topics from Design Journals and Video Transcripts
2023-09-21 17:30 - 18:00 | NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 6-14 (PC)
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This presentation will compare two case studies of generating and visualizing topics within a corpus of text related to design research and practice. Each study compares the advantages and disadvantages of utilizing machine learning algorithms to generate the topics versus manual extraction from human participants (design students).
While algorithms completed their tasks faster, they required iterative fine-tuning by our programmers to address inherent biases in the code. On the other hand, the design students were able to propose a set of topics without any insurmountable challenges. Finishing the tasks took them a span of a couple weeks, but the entire process gave them an opportunity to talk about data, bias, and design itself.
Presenter: Eugene Park, Associate Professor, Graphic Design (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Session type: Case Study

Visualising the online art and design student experience
2023-09-21 17:30 - 18:30 | NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 5-36 (SU)
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Our recent research explored the experiences of over 300 learners. We discovered how online study really worked for learners with a range of other responsibilities and commitments. This has updated our conceptions of the student experience, and our responsibility to develop learning that fits into, rather than takes over, students’ already busy lives.
In this creative workshop we will invite delegates to take an empathetic approach and use images, diagrams and text to visualise the student experience. We will provide example situations to focus the session on how and why learning can fit into students’ busy lives. The workshop will use a Miro board with guidance provided and alternative ways of working will be supported.
If you have not used Miro before, you may want to consult the Miro Quick Start Guide.
Presenters:

Georgia Steele, Programme Director (University of the Arts London)
Sebastian May, Student Experience Lead (University of the Arts London)

Session type: DYO

The Near Future of Iterative Design and Visual Representation: A Personal Journey with AI and XR
2023-09-21 18:00 - 18:30 | NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 6-14 (PC)
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Extended Reality and Generative AI are revolutionizing the way designers learn, practice, and teach design, creating new realities and adding challenges to conventional notions. The Iterative Process and Visual Representation have always been fundamental to the design, but the technological developments of XR and AI are transforming these core elements. Today, designers must adapt and incorporate these technologies to remain competitive and innovative. This session will explore the impact of XR and AI on iterative design processes and visual representation in design education, and provide insights from an architectural designer who has been actively involved in the study, practice, and pedagogy of architectural design in the last decade.
Presenter: Emre Ozdemir, Visiting Assistant Professor (Pratt Institute)
Session type: DYO

Inclusive Art Critique
2023-09-21 18:40 - 19:10 | NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 5-36 (SU)
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Art critique has long been a central practice in the art and design world, serving as a means for artists and designers to receive feedback on their work and for critics to analyze and evaluate. However, traditional art critiquing methods have often been exclusive, biased, and Eurocentric. As society progresses and strives toward greater inclusivity and diversity, it is crucial to extinguish past art-critiquing ways and adopt new, more inclusive methodologies.
Presenter: Dannell Macllwraith, Assistant Professor (Kutztown University)
Session type: Paper

Magic in the classroom: Labor, Delight, and A.I.
2023-09-21 18:40 - 19:10 | NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 6-14 (PC)
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Generative A.I. apps have embraced ✨sparkles✨ and references to magic in their branding and user interfaces. The idea of magic has long been entangled with technology and the arts. Are massive neural networks “indistinguishable from magic,” to quote Arthur C. Clarke, making creative software even more like a black box? Or, as selected new media art suggests, can magic be an elixir for schools and economies obsessed with efficiency? Can automation unlock time for more deeply human work?
Participants will be invited into a summoning circle to share their experiences with magic in the classroom (artificial or not), and to discuss the value of labor in the age of automation and magic buttons.
Presenter: Benjamin Andrew, Assistant Teaching Professor (Penn State)
Session type: DYO

Student Panel
2023-09-22 13:00 - 14:00 | NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 5-36 (SU)
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Join a panel of University of the Arts London students and alumni will discuss their reflections on digital learning and the conference theme ‘Realities and Futures’.
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Pedagogy in public: virtual interfaces as the new agora
2023-09-22 14:10 - 14:40 | NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 6-14 (PC)
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During the pandemic, platforms like Minecraft and Instagram became complex spaces for both play and pedagogy. Discourse tends to focus on interaction and the ability to communicate to broad audiences; however, they have also enabled a shift of pedagogy out of private institutional spaces and into the public realm. I argue that these spaces function as a new iteration of the ancient Athenian agora, where philosophers like Socrates and Aristotle famously met with students in the public marketplace. In public space, these teachings cannot be confined to the student and teacher—instead, teaching and learning are opened up to the flow of daily life and passers by, who may choose to participate in, or disrupt, the proceedings.
Presenter: Melanie Wilmink, Banting Postdoctoral Researcher (Yonsei University)
Session type: Case Study

Undoing Algorithmic Teaching Topographies
2023-09-22 14:10 - 15:10 | NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 5-36 (SU)
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Reversing gravitational pulls of in-person teaching toward multidirectional fluid teaching topographies of embodied texture-mapped immersive learning environments, we sought to undo the finite sequence of rigorous instructions inherent in most algorithmic learning environments. Rather than hoping new tech tools will dismantle the entrenched normative of the patriarchal house, students build experiential knowledge together with emphasis on lived experiences that raise questions about dominant narratives surrounding gender, sexuality, home, family, and belonging.
Presenter:

Karen Keifer-Boyd, Professor of Art Education & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Penn State)
Maggie-Rose Condit-Summerson, Doctoral Candidate (Penn State)
John Summerson, Animation Director and Educator (Penn State)

Session type: Panel

Generative Machine Learning as a Speculative Design Toolkit for Climate Education
2023-09-22 14:40 - 15:10 | NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 6-14 (PC)
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Teaching climate change outcomes can be difficult due to deeply ingrained political viewpoints. Education can often evolve into debates instead of providing information. Instead, process-based methods like storytelling and games can promote climate education by motivating students to engage in speculative future scenario imagining. This work describes a workshop applying generative machine learning tools to allow students to imagine future climate scenarios and come up with potential solution to climate crises. Participants used Stable Diffusion and Midjourney to envision climate futures, and ChatGPT to suggest climate solutions. This approach uses AI as a speculative design tool to promote engagement for future climate thinking.
Presenter: Ray LC, Assistant Professor (City University of Hong Kong)
Session type: Case Study

Researching AI Generative Platforms with Human Computation: A Method
2023-09-22 15:20 - 16:20 | NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 5-36 (SU)
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Developing methods to conduct research in the fast evolving field of AI generative platforms may become an arms race of machine learning which may possibly lose the essence of qualitative forms of knowing and perceiving nuanced relationships. This DYO session is intended to demonstrate and reflect on a new method for gathering data using group settings and human computation.
Presenter: Dr. Aaron Knochel, Associate Professor of Art Education (Penn State)
Session type: DYO

Open spaces: Designing a culture of sharing in creative online environments
2023-09-22 15:20 - 16:20 | NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 6-14 (PC)
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Creative education needs ways to explore ideas dynamically that encourage learning communities’ development in a studio environment. In the standard (design) studio model, in-person (IP) learning fosters a culture of sharing (CoS) as students and faculty engage in a multi-direction dialog via desk crits, class pinups, and final reviews. The OL studio, however, doesn’t share this opportunity. The class and pedagogy are designed to maintain visual and curricular consistency, hindering dynamic conversations and tangential explorations that IP students enjoy. In turn, this creates an inequitable learning experience. This discussion workshop will explore ways online creative pedagogy might be redesigned to encourage CoSs.
Presenter: Samantha Perkins, Clinical Professor + Assistant Director of Learner Experience and Learning Enterprise (Arizona State University)
Session type: DYO

Teaching AI as a Creative Medium to Interdisciplinary Art and Design Students
2023-09-22 16:20 - 16:50 | NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 6-14 (PC)
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Is artificial intelligence (AI) making students less creative? Educators are debating the roles of AI in the classroom as students embrace generative tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney. In this session, the presenters will share their pedagogical experience on how they integrated this new technology into the classroom while it was emerging week by week. They will argue for the importance of interrogation of the tools. Having a basic understanding of how the databases are built allowed the students to comprehend their inherent bias and misinformation. Iterative in-class design critiques helped them reflect upon the derivative nature of AI-generated work and how these tools redefine what it means to be creative.
Presenters:

Jeongki Lim, Assistant Professor (Parsons School of Design, The New School)
Mark Randall, Associate Dean of School of Design Strategies (Parsons School of Design, The New School)

Session type: Case Study

Collective world-building workshop: Dis/embodied audio- visual collage
2023-09-22 16:20 - 16:50 | NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 5-36 (SU)
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This DYO session will present The Community Game Development Toolkit, a set of tools that make it easy and fun for students, artists, activists and community members to create their own visually rich, interactive 3D environments and story-based games without the use of coding or other specialized game-design skills. Building on the popular 3D game design engine Unity, the Toolkit provides intuitive tools for diverse communities to represent their own traditions, rituals and heritages through interactive, visual storytelling. During the session, participants will work together to collaboratively produce a 3D scene using photos, sketches, recorded audio and 2D and 3D scan-based materials.
Presenter: Daniel Lichtman, Visiting Assistant Professor of Digital Studies (Stockton University)
Session type: DYO

Shaping Inclusive Futures of Immersive Technology: Interdisciplinary Collaborative Design for People with Disabilities
2023-09-22 17:30 - 18:00 | NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 6-14 (PC)
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Immersive technology has the potential to transform digital education and support people with disabilities, but limitations can prevent many users from accessing these technologies. Our presentation will showcase collaborative immersive projects implemented through the Innovation X program. Students from arts, engineering, special education, and the Aggie ACHIEVE program worked together over two semesters to create projects that explored opportunities for people with disabilities. Our case study aims to promote inclusive design practices that empower people with disabilities to engage with immersive technology, while also helping students become more inclusive and collaborative individuals in the design process.
Presenters:

Jinsil Seo, Associate Professor (Texas A&M University)
Caleb Kicklighter, Instructional Assistant Professor (Texas A&M University)
Paule Taele, Instructional Assistant Professor (Texas A&M University)

Session type: Case Study

Teaching Realities Across New Spaces: AI in the Digitally Engaged Design Classroom
2023-09-22 17:30 - 18:30 | NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 5-36 (SU)
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AI is rapidly transforming the way we teach and learn. The use of AI-powered technologies has unleashed exciting new opportunities and challenges for educators, students, and institutions. This panel discussion will present teaching realities across these new spaces using AI as an integrated design process in the classroom. Panelist will present student product design and experimental typography case studies from 100% online undergraduate and graduate design classes during the spring 2023 semester. The panel discussion will demonstrate how AI is used in the classroom to enhance the teaching and learning experiences, as well as the challenges faced by educators and students implementing these new innovative technologies.
Presenters:

William Culpepper, Online Director (Academy of Art University)
Antonio Baja, Director, School of Industrial Design (Academy of Art University)
Kathryn Morgan, Adjunct Professor, School of Graphic Design (Academy of Art University)
Jason Mitchell, Adjunct Professor, School of Graphic Design (Academy of Art University)

Session type: Panel

The creative revolution is live: How the unicorns are breaking boldly to be seen using design and technology
2023-09-22 18:00 - 18:30 | NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 6-14 (PC)
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The Reality
No one stood up. Students have the receipts.
The Future
The revolution will not be televised. It will be in your face.
USC doctoral students Tari Gant (pronounced Atari without the A) and Kristina Lamour Sansone invite you to listen and
reimagine Gil Scott-Heron’s 1971, “The Revolution will not Be Televised,” as we seek to understand motivated students who have transcended technology to design new learning and workspaces.
We invite you to a Madlib-style interactive workshop on Heron’s 1971 lyrics, as we anticipate the future made
visible by students showing us live through their creative ways of learning and working.
Presenters:

Tari Gant, Doctoral Student (Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California)
Kristina Lamour Sansone, Doctoral Student (Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California)

Session type: DYO

AI Use in Contemporary Artists’ Practices: Implications for Art Education
2023-09-22 18:40 - 19:10 | NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 5-36 (SU)
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has recently been continuously debated, as creating AI-generated art pieces has become more common in our daily lives; however, we argue that art educators are not yet prepared for this change. In this paper, we shed light on the implications of the work of contemporary artists who incorporate AI technologies into their practices, for today’s art education. We highlight the work of Patrick Tresset, Shinseungback Kimyonghun, and Es Devlin. Constantly seeking artistic possibilities in playful ways, these artists focus on intuitive processes, maintaining and developing their artistic curiosity and critical thinking, rather than on technologies themselves.
Presenters:

Dr. Borim Song, Associate Professor (East Carolina University)
Dr. Ahran Koo, Associate Professor (California State University, Fresno)

Session type: Paper

Extending the Visual Storytelling Narrative Arc through Augmented Reality
2023-09-22 18:40 - 19:10 | NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 6-14 (PC)
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New digital tools and tactics such as augmented reality offer the potential to create new “hybrid” student outcomes. This project-based case study is from an experimental “Visual Storytelling” design elective within a public university School of Design. The experimental class format allowed for the introduction of new curricular methods and strategies, including new tools and platforms for project outcomes. In this case study, an augmented reality extension of a more traditional design project outcome activated student curiosity and experimentation. Hybrid and multimodal methods of visual storytelling bridging print and screen-based experience design increase user engagement with the designed outcome.
Presenter: Ellen Christensen, Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design (San Francisco State University)
Session type: Case Study

Education and Ethics of AI
2023-12-08 14:00 - 15:00
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 help with coursework at least once a week. Nearly double the amount of teachers said they’re using it on a weekly basis if not more. But there’s much more to AI than just ChatGPT. This session will look at how ChatGPT and other AI generative tools can be used across disciplines and teaching styles – ethically and responsibly.

Presenters:
Dale Blasingame (Associate Professor of Practice, Texas State University)
Jon Zmikly (Senior Lecturer, Texas State University)
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The Mediated Landscape Lab
2024-02-09 14:00 - 15:00
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 future inside and outside the classroom.

Guest: Marc Miller, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at Pennsylvania State University.

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