AIxDesign In The Loop #13 ➰

SEPTEMBER 2021 | issue #13

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SEPTEMBER

Community updates

UPCOMING 🗓 — 16th September, AIxDesign Talk + Workshop: Design for Communal Computing Devices w/ Chris Butler

Home assistants and smart displays are being sold in record numbers and should be designed to exist as shared devices in a communal space, instead of with a single user in mind 🏡

In this talk and workshop, we will learn about concepts of communal computing, its design challenges, and generate strategies while working with Empathy Mapping for Machine exercises 🤖

About the speaker: Chris Butler is a product manager with 20+ years of experience across Microsoft, Waze, KAYAK, Facebook Reality Labs, and more. He facilitates critical decision making to create cross-team alignment while building AI products. He is currently working as Assistant Vice President, Head of Product Operations, at Cognizant where he PM's the PM experience 👨🏼‍💻

UPCOMING 🗓 — 22nd September, AIxDesign Talk & Workshop: Fictioning Synthetic Reality w/ Lenka Hamosova

What do we want synthetic reality to be? Although synthetic media is most popular due to deepfakes, the real-world applications of AI-driven media synthesis extend far beyond memes, fake news, and pornography. Whether in visual, audio, or textual form, AI-generated synthetic media exemplifies real-appearing fiction and brings unprecedented creative possibilities.

This workshop invites participants from diverse backgrounds to engage in synthetic imagination and create new futures using today's most well-known artificial intelligence models. Participants will learn about the principles of synthetic media creation, the current and future promise of AI tools, as well as their limitations, and apply this information directly to speculative brainstorming.

About the speaker: Lenka is a designer, researcher, and visual artist. She is the initiator of the educational project Collective Vision of Synthetic Reality, which spreads awareness of available AI models and opens a discussion on the future use of artificial intelligence through interdisciplinary workshops. She currently teaches at MA Future Design, Prague City University, and is a co-founder of the UROBOROS art/design festival.

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RECORDING 🗓 — AIxDesign Keynote: AI Artivism with Aishatu Gwadabe

We had the opportunity to host a keynote by the inspiring Aishatu Gwadabe . She poetically reflected on what she believes to be the key towards truly creating inclusive (AI) technology — moving away from an egocentric design perspective and towards a communal and long-term thinking one. Watch the recap below!