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This course will facilitate students in their experimental use of generative AI within the design process, particularly as it relates to iterative prototyping through hands on analog making. This course will better prepare students interested in design to leverage computational tools within the creative process.

The course will focus on making/creating physical artifacts in an analog way alongside the use of generative AI. The course will develop students' abilities and confidence in computational skills and in skills of making. Throughout the course students will be moving between digital environments and physical ones. The ability for computers to generate/ideate is improving quickly. Yet the availability and ability for computational power to instantiate its hallucinations are more difficult. This course will allow students to mediate and provide intuition, context, and a human centered approach where generative models find hands tied. We will begin by introducing several generative models including Neural Style Transfer, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, Dall-E. Through initial ideation students will collaborate with these models to explore possibilities. The course will culminate with students taking their collaborative creations out of the computer creating physical artifacts. These artifacts will have a focus on the use of sustainable materials and processes.

This course is eligible for honors credit through Hutton Honors College. 

Catalog Information: COLL-S 103  FRESHMAN SEMINAR IN A&H

Instructor:

R. Spencer Steenblik

Email:

rsteenbl@iu.edu

Department:

Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture, & Design

Spencer Steenblik, has spend the last 20 years helping people optimizing their places to be amazing and inspiring. He is a registered architect(New York), has built, taught, published, exhibited, and curated globally. His work negotiates vernacular and advanced digital processes through an equitable, interdisciplinary, sustainable and naturally inspired approach, creating urban intricacy and inspiring, interactive spaces. He’s spoken globally at universities such as MIT, Tongji University, Yonsei University, etc. His work is published prolifically.

GenEd Information: Approved for the Arts & Humanities requirement of the IU Bloomington General Education program.