AI as a Design Medium: Shifting from Answer-Generation to Inquiry
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ERIC RODENBECK
Summary
This article, the second in a series on AI and design, explores artificial intelligence as a design medium rather than a tool for producing answers. Eric Rodenbeck, a lecturer at Harvard GSD and founder of Stamen Design, argues that AI is most generative when treated as a condition for inquiry. The piece challenges prevailing narratives of efficiency and instead positions AI as a way for designers to reshape how they think and produce knowledge.
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While the first article in this series on artificial intelligence explored how designers may be uniquely positioned to confront the technology's implications, this second essay examines AI as a design medium.
Challenging prevailing narratives of efficiency...
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