Category Publications

Towards Hallucinating Machines – Designing with Computational Vision

The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate and interrogate a design technique based on deep learning. The discussion includes aspects of machine learning, 2D to 2D style transfers and generative adversarial processes. The paper examines the meaning of agency in a world where decision making processes are defined by human/machine collaborations, and their relationship to aspects of a Posthuman design ecology. Taking cues from the language used by experts in AI such as Hallucinations, Dreaming, Style Transfer and Vision, the paper strives to clarify the position and role of Artificial Intelligence in the discipline of urban design.

A Question of Style – Style, Artificial Intelligence and Architecture

The complexity of the term Style consists in the unusual weight and flexibility of the concept itself. In essence the concept defines the main basic rulesets of artistic achievement and excellence. The term Style itself is a latecomer to the considerations of the examination of artistic endeavour and is being discussed in a fierce fashion to this very day. The term Style in this frame of conversation can be divided into two specific cases. Case one is the idea of Style in Architecture. Case two is the use of the term in Computer Science. In combination, these two instances form the frame of this essay on the emergence of novel considerations of style in the architecture discipline through the application of Neural Networks. More specifically: through the adoption of Style transfer as a technique.

Imaginary Maps – a Posthuman Urban Design Method based on Neural Style Transfer 

The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate and interrogate a design technique based on deep learning. The discussion includes aspects of machine learning, 2D to 2D style transfers and generative adversarial processes. The paper examines the meaning of agency in a world where decision making processes are defined by human/machine collaborations, and their relationship to aspects of a Posthuman design ecology. Taking cues from the language used by experts in AI such as Hallucinations, Dreaming, Style Transfer and Vision, the paper strives to clarify the position and role of Artificial Intelligence in the discipline of urban design.

Sensibilities of artificial intelligence an examination of architecture in a posthuman design ecology

The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate and interrogate a design technique based on deep learning. The discussion includes aspects of machine learning, 2D to 2D style transfers and generative adversarial processes. The paper examines the meaning of agency in a world where decision making processes are defined by human/machine collaborations, and their relationship to aspects of a Posthuman design ecology. Taking cues from the language used by experts in AI such as Hallucinations, Dreaming, Style Transfer and Vision, the paper strives to clarify the position and role of Artificial Intelligence in the discipline of urban design.

Machine Hallucinations

The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate and interrogate a design technique based on deep learning. The discussion includes aspects of machine learning, 2D to 2D style transfers and generative adversarial processes. The paper examines the meaning of agency in a world where decision making processes are defined by human/machine collaborations, and their relationship to aspects of a Posthuman design ecology. Taking cues from the language used by experts in AI such as Hallucinations, Dreaming, Style Transfer and Vision, the paper strives to clarify the position and role of Artificial Intelligence in the discipline of urban design.

Imaginary Plans

The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate and interrogate a design technique based on deep learning. The discussion includes aspects of machine learning, 2D to 2D style transfers and generative adversarial processes. The paper examines the meaning of agency in a world where decision making processes are defined by human/machine collaborations, and their relationship to aspects of a Posthuman design ecology. Taking cues from the language used by experts in AI such as Hallucinations, Dreaming, Style Transfer and Vision, the paper strives to clarify the position and role of Artificial Intelligence in the discipline of urban design.