Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI), as a new technology and way of thinking, inevitably affects the design studio pedagogy in Arts and Architecture Schools. AI provides new image-making techniques without necessarily having a technical craft, but at the same time, it brings the question of the designer’s agency. This research looks at how AI can become a supportive tool to help with the image-making and design process, especially for non-designers or first-time college students. In this research, the image-making process of AI is used in different scales within three major themes of undergraduate pedagogy of environmental design: “basic design, architecture, and city.” On an abstract scale, the first theme, “basic design,” provided analytical tools and parameters for AI prompts. The second theme, “architectural space,” gave first-time designers and college students agency. The third theme, “city,” used parameters of basic design and early definitions of architectural space to redefine the outcome using the AI image-making process. AI’s controlled use for design pedagogy bridges non-major students’ understanding of design and that understanding’s physical manifestation. In other words, the controlled use of AI becomes a tool to build bridges between mental and physical domains. Early findings of this research show that the controlled use of AI as a pedagogical tool and parametric design as a thinking process can help non-designers grasp basic design concepts. Using AI as a pedagogical tool opens up further research on alternative design methodologies without using the agency.
Presenters
Ezgi BalkanayAssistant Professor, School of Architecture, College of Arts and Architecture, Montana State University, Montana, United States
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2024 Special Focus—Images and Imaginaries from Artificial Intelligence
KEYWORDS
AI as a pedagogical tool, Basic design studio, Agency, Image-making
