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art-ai-fact

Explorations of designing the material world together with AI approaches.

Shipwreck-dress; made from 17th century shipwreck — © Mikko Raskinen

With focus on the concrete world around us, culture and various fields of design, this three-year initiative explores selected approaches to human-AI co-creation by tangible, material outputs. We also attempt to extend understanding of co-creativity.

Design, art, research

Our three-year initiative produces creative outputs in fields related to design, especially including a physical component. The initiative curates, funds, and coordinates projects, which aim for relevant public presentation accompanied by research outputs.
Creativity requires novelty, as well as approriateness or value. Physical world constraints and requirements, and humans operating there, may pose different fitness criteria for creative output than that expected from immaterial creative outputs. Many designers operate where material and digital meet. As Aalto ARTS has been in the forefront combining digital and physical into creative solutions, the potential of AI to human creativity is a field we want to inquire with practice-led approach.

About Aalto University, Finland

Aalto University is where science and art meet technology and business. We shape a sustainable future by making research breakthroughs in and across our disciplines, sparking the game changers of tomorrow and creating novel solutions to major global challenges. Our community is made up of 16 000 students and 5 200 employees, including 446 professors. Our campus is in Espoo, Greater Helsinki, Finland.

SketchFold - Sheet metal to forms by sketching — © Sami Markkula & Kane Borg

When wood types matter - examples of structures — © Maria Larsson & Hironori Yoshida

Craftbot - architecture and LLMs, a scale model — © Luka Piskorec

Textile Design Meets AI — © Mikko Raskinen