Note: Session time is listed in BST. Check your local time zone. 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… Read More »Beyond Word Clouds: Case Studies of Visualizing Topics from Design Journals and Video Transcripts

Note: Session time is listed in BST. Check your local time zone. 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… Read More »Visualising the online art and design student experience

Note: Session time is listed in BST. Check your local time zone. 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… Read More »The Near Future of Iterative Design and Visual Representation: A Personal Journey with AI and XR

Note: Session time is listed in BST. Check your local time zone. 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.… Read More »Inclusive Art Critique

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