The Future of Design and Making
This project explores how artificial intelligence can empower community-based design and fabrication. Rather than treating AI as a tool of efficiency for industry, the work reimagines it as a local collaborator—helping non-experts create, repair, and design objects within makerspaces. By combining participatory workshops, speculative design, and prototyping, the project investigates how conversational and visual AI tools can democratize access to
The Manifesto event was a collective conversation about the role of AI in design and fabrication. Together with makers, designers, and technologists, we asked: What should AI do? What shouldn’t it do? Should it generate ideas, assist with making, or step aside altogether?
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