UoU – WS2A Interweavings
Lead institution: University of Universities
Country: United Kingdom
Project primary contact: Edward Crump (e.crump@kingston.ac.uk), Associate Professor (Teaching)
Secondary contact: Dr Sarah Stevens, Dr Marcus Winter and Dr. Karina Rodriguez-Echavarria
Project Title: UoU – WS2A Interweavings
The project is: Finished
Project Summary:
As part of the University of Universities, a team led by Sarah Stevens involving Marcus Winter and Karina Rodriguez-Echavarria from the University of Brighton, and Edward Crump from Kingston University, developed a 3-week long international workshop tasking students to create an 'Augmented Reality experience' to reconcile the relationship between human and non-human worlds.
The project challenged the participants "to explore the potential of a thicker understanding of space to further our connection with other creatures." The workshop, run in a hybrid manner, featured lectures and demonstrations seeking to guide the students as to how they could develop their work using visual AI technologies, encouraging them to move between physical and digital space to refine their ideas.
The students were introduced to an open-source latent diffusion model that uses AI to generate images and explained how a user can engage with this tool through creating inputs using both text and image, and how prompts can be crafted to 'infer' outcomes. Finally, the demonstrations included how generative AI could be used to edit images and produce films from still imagery to provide an array of options for usage and to respond to assumed diversities in AI and digital literacies within the group.
Impact: The intended impact on one hand was to educate and empower the participants with knowledge of AI technologies, and on the other collect feedback through observing their reflections upon their experiences through a structured presentation moment, which would then have the potential to inform the future deployment of AI in teaching.
Audience: Following introducing the AI technologies, the project sought to gather from the participants reflections on their experience through avoiding formalising its use – in fact participants were free not to use AI to complete the task, meaning any interaction was actively led by the participant with the aim of enhancing the authenticity of the feedback received.
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