Design collective Panorámica has created a machine that utilises synthetic intelligence and a set of prompts to generate distinctive items of furnishings based mostly on a repository of Mexican design types throughout Mexico Ciy artwork week.
Showcased on the design part of the Zona Maco artwork truthful in Mexico Metropolis, the exhibition was referred to as Anyone Can Be a Mexican Designer with a subheading that disclaimed “even in case you are not a designer nor Mexican”.
The exhibition showcased the collective’s machine inside a white sales space backed by a large display screen.
The machine itself is a big, white wood-trimmed field with a small display screen, a coin-insertion slot and a ticket printer. Panorámica stated that the look of the machine itself was influenced by the minimalist modernism practised by the German Ulm College of design within the mid-Twentieth century.
After inserting a 10-peso coin ($0.59), customers have been guided by means of a sequence of prompts together with typology, intervals in Mexico’s historical past – from the Neolithic to the up to date – in addition to variations in color and levels of ornament.
The machine has a reference financial institution with an archive of photos drawn from a “extensive spectrum of what we generally think about about design in Mexico,” in keeping with the collective. The software program concerned included a mixture of Arduino, TouchDesigner and the OpenAI synthetic intelligence utility programming interface (AIAPI).
The mix of prompts was the processed with a picture of the ensuing piece of furnishings displayed on a display screen.
The collective referred to as the machine a “dwelling provocation”, asking the customers to reassess sure assumptions about cultural provenance, accreditation and machine-led creation.
“By changing the human in sure facets of the inventive course of, it forces us to rethink what we perceive by creativity and authorship,” stated Panorámica.
“The machine challenges the standard notion that design is a purely human area, opening a dialogue in regards to the function of know-how within the evolution of design,” it continued.
“It confronts us with the likelihood that authenticity in design doesn’t lie in mere adherence to aesthetics, references, and recognizable types, however within the fixed seek for real and significant expressions.”
The studio additionally famous that the machine was meant to problem fastened notions of the identification of Mexican design itself.
Panorámica believes it’s a marker of the “turning level” that machine-learning-based picture technology software program represents for design and creativity usually.
“Mexican design, as we all know it, is revealed not as a hard and fast entity, however as a always altering method, prone to being redefined and expanded, not solely inside the borders of Mexico however on the worldwide stage,” stated the collective.
“This machine is not only a device, however a strong image of a brand new daybreak in design and creativity, akin to the introduction of the steam engine within the industrial revolution or the adoption of CAD applied sciences within the modernization of the design course of.”
For extra on how AI would possibly have an effect on the world of design, see the AItopia editorial collection that Dezeen ran final 12 months.
Panorámica was based by designers José de la O, Ian Ortega, Jorge Diego Etienne, and Joel Escalona. Its previous work ranges from extra conventional design objects to exhibitions inspecting materiality within the Mexican context.
Different exhibitions that came about throughout Mexico Metropolis artwork week 2024 embody an set up the place Guadalajara-based studio Bolsón remodeled a storefront with upcycled plastic upholstery.
The images is by Achach Fotografía.
Zona Maco came about in Mexico Metropolis from 7 to 11 February 2024. For extra occasions, exhibitions and talks in structure and design go to Dezeen Occasions Information.
