Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence enters the scene as both tool and presence—something we command, yet something that quietly grows beyond our grasp. Its influence on the design process remains uncertain: will it accelerate creativity, or dilute it into repetition, convenience, and even more sameness? As a design tool, AI already generates images, narratives, and models, but these emerge from a logic alien to human imagination, forcing designers to confront an unfamiliar partner in creation. Perhaps it is less a species than a new actor, one that learns, reshapes, and unsettles the boundaries between intention and accident. In everyday life as much as in design, AI is no longer simply a machine but a presence that compels us to rethink what authorship, agency, and collaboration might mean. (this text was proof-read and fine-tuned using AI)

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AI in Landscape Architecture: Beyond the Myth of AI-Human Rivalry

January 6, 2025 / Zihao Zhang

… what is the stage of AI in and outside the profession and discipline of landscape architecture? Many firms are now incorporating Generative AI into their workflow. Firms such as SWA have been able to fund research fellows exploring generative AI. Anecdotally, I have learned that other firms have similar internal initiatives. One trend is using LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models), a lightweight training technique that can “fine-tune” one’s Stable Diffusion models to generate images in a certain style.

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The Novel City: Faux Nature Maze

March 11, 2024 / Urška Škerl

When we speak of Nature in cities, the question we want to stress is, is nature in cities natural or in fact an artefact? When we speak of natural processes, they of course take place but apart from spontaneous nature, left to random succession, emerging in spaces that Gilles Clément calls the third landscapes, there […]

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