What to expect?
Are we talking about generative AI as a design machine that can knock us out as designers and deliver visual results that produce kitsch, design shiny products, naturalistic animations, hallucinatory nonsense, and automate processes that cause problems for design quality? Is it all an illusion?
In this workshop, we will turn the design process with AI upside down so that we can recognise how strongly human design can function based on our intuition. We will demystify AI in design and experience how we can enhance our creation with intelligent systems as our own design achievement above average.
With the help of a range of algorithmic techniques and craft methods, including experimental design, embodiment and processuality in design, and shaping in three-dimensional space, we will explore how we can derive functions from pure form that are hidden in our design but which we might not otherwise have recognised.
The work will be free and experimental. Technical knowledge is helpful but not a prerequisite. We will get our hands dirty, gather immersive experiences, create sculptures and animations that will be exhibited during the Luxembourg Design Festival, stage code and experience why the potential of valuable problems and fascinating questions can tell us a lot about our own design personality.
- Workshop in English.
- Dates: 2 identical sessions on Thursday 13 November and on Friday 14 November 2025, at Lycée des Arts et Métiers, Limperstberg
- Workshop registration here below.
Marc Engenhart
Prof. Marc Engenhart studied Photography and Information Design. Founded Engenhart ° Design Studio in 2005. Worked on projects in the fields of applied communication design, interaction design, digital systems, speculative design, critical design and transmedia. Various national and international design awards. Since 2015, teaching and research at universities, including the International University of Applied Sciences, the University of Design Schwäbisch Gmünd, the Technical University of Ingolstadt and the Mainz University of Applied Sciences in the fields of communication design, human-computer interaction, AI and design, visualisation and typography. Since 2006, member of the Type Directors Club New York, since 2012, member of the BDG, the professional association of German communication designers. Since 2018, member of the German Federal Association for Artificial Intelligence. Since 2019, founder of the critical speculative design futuring blog The Unthinkable Hub and founder of the Designing with Artificial Intelligence (dai) conference. 2022 co-author of the publication of the first standard work ‘Design and Artificial Intelligence’ at DeGruyter/Birkhäuser, Basel/Boston. Works and lives in Stuttgart and Berlin.
Workshop Registration
Two identical sessions are offered:
- Thursday, 13 November 2025
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Friday, 14 November 2025
- 09:00 – 15:00
📍 Venue: Lycée des Arts et Métiers, Limpertsberg
- Please register for one session only
- Limited number of seats
- Participation fee required
👉 Registration platform will open soon.
