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Conference Agenda

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Agenda Overview

Session

D114: Workshop 4: DESIGNING WITH INTELLIGENCE: EXPLORING THE PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF AI ON DESIGN PRACTICE AND PROCESSES

Time:

Monday, 18/May/2026:

9:00am - 12:30pm

Session Chair: Claudia Eckert, The Open University, United Kingdom
Session Chair: Kilian Gericke, University of Rostock, Germany
Session Chair: Sabine Muschik, ISEM Institute for Smart Engineering and Machine Elements, Germany
Session Chair: Ola Isaksson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Session Chair: Filippo Chiarello, Università di Pisa, Italy

Location: Conference Hall Orlando 2

HOSTED BY THE DSDESIGN PROCESS SIG, DESIGN PRACTICE SIG AND AI IN DESIGN SIG

Session Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly being adopted across a wide range of design activities, from generative ideation to simulation and validation. At the same time, its integration is reshaping roles, skills, responsibilities, and values within design practice. This interactive workshop invites researchers, practitioners, and educators to critically explore how AI is transforming design processes—what it enables, what it challenges, and how it alters the nature, sequencing, and interdependencies of design tasks.

Through short reports from industrial practice and collaborative mapping of AI approaches currently in use, participants will examine both the benefits and potential risks associated with AI-supported design processes. Attention will be given to the interaction of multiple AI applications within a single design process, and to questioning whether existing design process paradigms remain fit for purpose in current industrial contexts and in the decades ahead.

The workshop aims to bridge research and practice by exploring how design processes can evolve while retaining human-centred creativity, judgment, and the ability to assess emerging design states. Ultimately, the session seeks to build a critical mass of researchers and practitioners interested in jointly exploring the future of design processes in industry, both theoretically and in practice.

Key outcomes

Identify how AI is currently impacting industrial and engineering design processes.

Strengthen the SIG community of researchers and practitioners interested in design practice and design processes.

Identify next steps for collaboration and future research and exploration.