Note: Session time is listed in BST. Check your local time zone. 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… Read More »Magic in the classroom: Labor, Delight, and A.I.

Note: Session time is listed in BST. Check your local time zone. 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’. Read more about the panellists.

Note: Session time is listed in BST. Check your local time zone. 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… Read More »Pedagogy in public: virtual interfaces as the new agora

Note: Session time is listed in BST. Check your local time zone. 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… Read More »Undoing Algorithmic Teaching Topographies

Note: Session time is listed in BST. Check your local time zone. 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… Read More »Generative Machine Learning as a Speculative Design Toolkit for Climate Education

Note: Session time is listed in BST. Check your local time zone. 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… Read More »Researching AI Generative Platforms with Human Computation: A Method

Note: Session time is listed in BST. Check your local time zone. 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.… Read More »Open spaces: Designing a culture of sharing in creative online environments

Note: Session time is listed in BST. Check your local time zone. 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… Read More »Teaching AI as a Creative Medium to Interdisciplinary Art and Design Students

Note: Session time is listed in BST. Check your local time zone. 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… Read More »Collective world-building workshop: Dis/embodied audio- visual collage

Note: Session time is listed in BST. Check your local time zone. 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,… Read More »Shaping Inclusive Futures of Immersive Technology: Interdisciplinary Collaborative Design for People with Disabilities