The impact of generative design within architecture is not through novel form, but through the creation of a new space of architectural possibility negotiated between material behaviour, structural performance, formal expression and ornamental or tectonic detail. It is this negotiation of underlying design logics and intention, not the simulation of appearance, that makes generative design a powerful method of design speculation.
That capacity for negotiation has been steadily eroded by the proliferation of the dominant modes of generative AI — machine learning and diffusion models. These systems generate images by interpolating within the latent space of precedent; there is no material model, no structural model and no understanding of the underlying processes of formation.
VENTUROUS DISCOURSE is proudly supported by our major sponsor the Naarm Architecture Foundation.
Professor, Director, RMIT Architecture | Tectonic Formation Lab; Snooks + Harper
Professor, RMIT School of Architecture and Urban Design; Founder, Biothing
RMIT School of Architecture and Urban Design; Co-founder, Fologram and RunChat
Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong; Director, Fabrication and Material Technologies Lab
Associate Dean, Research and Innovation, RMIT School of Architecture and Urban Design; Director Floppy Lab
Friday 18 September, 5:30pm
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This exhibition is presented by the School of Architecture and Urban Design and the College of Design and Social Context at RMIT University.
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
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