Start making sense. AI, Automata and the Conquest of Space

Abstract

The rapid development of artificial intelligence tools during the last years, and more importantly, the availability and ease of use of such tools for architects, designers and artists have raised questions about the ways in which they affect current creative practices. Opinions of course vary, from understanding AI as just another set of tools at the disposal of the designer to desperate warnings that generative AI tools could signify the death of the creative process as we know it. The use of automated processes however is not something new; on the contrary, tools that automate a smaller or larger part of the creative process have a long history within which we can find examples that might help us to better understand current processes as they are formed with the proliferation of AI tools.