THE ROLE FOR AI IN A COIL PROJECT INVOLVING FAST FASHION, PERSONAL FLOATATION DEVICES, AND A LMIC COMMUNITY
Year: 2024
Editor: Grierson, Hilary; Bohemia, Erik; Buck, Lyndon
Author: Wachs, Marina-Elena; Fairburn, Sue; Powell, John
Series: E&PDE
Institution: Hochschule Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Germany; Wilson School of Design / (KPU); Bournmouth University
Page(s): 97 - 102
DOI number: 10.35199/EPDE.2024.17
ISBN: 978-1-912254-200
ISSN: 3005-4753
Abstract
Product design engineering education in the future involves commitment to more than integrative soft skills in team play and supporting student self-management, it is also about mediating collaborative design methods through integrative, intercultural experiences, co-piloted by AI. Balancing collaborative design learning formats is extremely relevant to emerging European Union (EU) regulations. Extreme textiles and new bio-based materials provide functionality yet they represent only one case of business in design. These are countered with fast fashion-based textiles, their prevalence in society, and their problematic performance and abundance. Alongside this, is the real need to protect LMIC communities facing high occupational risks without access to affordable, high quality personal protective equipment (PPE). This submission provides the background, process, and scope for a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) design project across three countries and two continents. Defining the project across continents requires navigation of learning and designing formats, alongside rapidly emerging technologies (AI). We will investigate how AI based and hands-on design meet problem-based design projects. This project – about extreme textiles, re-use of fast-fashion for personal protective equipment - will use different design learning formats (from charette to COIL). It extends beyond logistical challenges to address standards vis a vis affordability/sustainability, for a LMIC community needing buoyancy solutions for fishers (SDG 3+14), and the associated student learning. This scoping paper is also about intercultural design skills and it poses the questions; what is the role for AI in integrative design; what difference does it make in this context?
Keywords: personal protective equipment (PPE), extreme textiles, COIL learning formats with AI, co-piloting design methods, LMIC and integrative design.