In February 2021 I participated in the DigitalFUTURES Young talk “AI & Creativity” to present the preliminary outcomes of my PhD research project. The presentation is about the implementation of AI models to support creativity in conceptual design and investigates two issues: (1) how AI can be integrated within existing CAD software and which models are suitable for AI-CAD integration, and (2) to what extent AI models can learn about design and interface with the designer to suggest new design possibilities.

In February 2021 I participated in the DigitalFUTURES Young talk “AI & Creativity” to present the preliminary outcomes of my PhD research project. The presentation is about the implementation of AI models to support creativity in conceptual design and investigates two issues: (1) how AI can be integrated within existing CAD software and which models are suitable for AI-CAD integration, and (2) to what extent AI models can learn about design and interface with the designer to suggest new design possibilities.

The presentation describes three different strategies for training AI to be a design partner: (1) learning from design expertise, (2) learning from playfulness, and (3) learning from analogies. Each strategy is applied to train different typologies of models – from Generative Models to Reinforcement Learning Agents – and demonstrated through applications and benchmarks in the fields of architectural and structural design.

Here is the recording of the session. The video starts from my presentation, which is the first one. Enjoy also all the other presentations and the discussion at the end of the talk!