Immersive Design Legacies and Intelligent Futures: AI, Creative Technologies, and the Transformation of Design Education

Description

Artificial intelligence, immersive environments, and creative computational systems are fundamentally reshaping how design is conceived, practised, and taught. These technologies are no longer external instruments applied to design problems, but active agents within creative processes, research cultures, and educational structures. The presentation examines how emerging technologies are transforming design education from studio-based instruction into hybrid academic environments that integrate experimentation, research, and cultural inquiry. Drawing on international research and leadership experience across digital design, immersive media, and AI-enabled creativity, the talk explores the shift from representational digital tools to intelligent, generative, and adaptive systems. It reflects on how immersive technologies and AI reposition the design studio as a site of knowledge production, where design operates simultaneously as creative practice, research methodology, and innovation platform. The keynote argues that the future of design education lies in cultivating intelligent, creative cultures that enable designers to operate critically, ethically, and creatively across technological, disciplinary, and cultural boundaries.

Period	17 Apr 2026
Event title	Symposium on “Interculturality and Interdisciplinarity: Towards a New Ecology of Design Education”.
Event type	Conference
Location	Xiamen, ChinaShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International