AI-driven Speculative Interactions: Towards the Wall

Instructors:

• Ayşegül Akçay Kavakoğlu
• Bengü Özmutlu

Abstract:

AI-driven speculative interactions: towards the wall workshop concentrates on the cultural heritage experiences via the use of machine learning-based models and their integration to interactive design generation methods. How artificial intelligence informs interaction and which kind of data can be used during this process will be explored through lectures and tutorials. We will design interactive spatial augmented reality installations regarding the context below: 

# While the historical, social, and scientific value is the initial driver for the cultural heritage of Land Walls, its future encounters through the interplay of human, nature, and artefact trio remain ambiguous. This workshop will envision the speculative interactions of Land Walls regarding this interplay. How the near future interactions will generate novel ways of experiencing cultural heritage and how we can create new forms of interaction via AI will be the central questions of the workshop. We will concentrate on sensory forms of interactions by speculating on the digital and computational representations of Land Walls and by questioning the intelligence of interaction while creating cultural, aesthetic, social, ecological or architectural encounters.

We will have lectures on interactive design, AI and speculative design. We will have tutorials on training a neural network, data set preparation and visual programming language for real-time interaction.