MORE-THAN-HUMAN AI

Exploring the boundaries between humans and AI in the design of regenerative futures

From 6:30 pm at Workshop Space Tre, Building B3, Campus Bovisa, Via Durando 10, Milan

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The Department of Design will host a lecture series titled “More-than-human AI”. The event, organized by the PhD Program in Design in collaboration with the Design Intelligences Institute, is an opportunity to explore how designers can navigate and engage with AI to actively promote the resilience and flourishing of our environmental, social, and economic systems.

In this lecture series, speakers with backgrounds in art, academia, and industry will explore the integration of AI in design from a more-than-human perspective, to tackle complex socio-technical challenges within post-industrial and post-humanist frameworks.

The discussions will cover topics such as multispecies justice, equitable climate futures, complex systems, speculative AI prototyping, and hybridity. The lectures will explore why and how to include various life forms and intelligences in the design process, and the role of AI in articulating and realizing regenerative futures.

In essence, this series seeks to explore how AI can be used not just to enhance existing processes but to help us transition from a focus on minimizing harm to actively encouraging the resilience and flourishing of our interconnected systems.

SPEAKERS:

  • Tuesday, 15 October
    Federico Bomba
    Sineglossa, Bologna

  • Tuesday, 29 October
    Joseph Lindley
    Lancaster University

  • Wednesday, 6 November
    Francesco Nappo
    Gruppo META, Politecnico di Milano