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Open spaces: Designing a culture of sharing in creative online environments

NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 6-14 (PC)

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

Teaching AI as a Creative Medium to Interdisciplinary Art and Design Students

NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 6-14 (PC)

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

Collective world-building workshop: Dis/embodied audio- visual collage

NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 5-36 (SU)

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

Shaping Inclusive Futures of Immersive Technology: Interdisciplinary Collaborative Design for People with Disabilities

NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 6-14 (PC)

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

Teaching Realities Across New Spaces: AI in the Digitally Engaged Design Classroom

NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 5-36 (SU)

Note: Session time is listed in BST. Check your local time zone. 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.… Read More »Teaching Realities Across New Spaces: AI in the Digitally Engaged Design Classroom

The creative revolution is live: How the unicorns are breaking boldly to be seen using design and technology

NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 6-14 (PC)

Note: Session time is listed in BST. Check your local time zone. 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… Read More »The creative revolution is live: How the unicorns are breaking boldly to be seen using design and technology

AI Use in Contemporary Artists’ Practices: Implications for Art Education

NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 5-36 (SU)

Note: Session time is listed in BST. Check your local time zone. 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… Read More »AI Use in Contemporary Artists’ Practices: Implications for Art Education

Extending the Visual Storytelling Narrative Arc through Augmented Reality

NAFA Campus 1, Towerblock Room 6-14 (PC)

Note: Session time is listed in BST. Check your local time zone. 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… Read More »Extending the Visual Storytelling Narrative Arc through Augmented Reality

Education and Ethics of AI

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

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