Writing about how AI changes design — and how design should shape AI.

2025 · Book chapter · Springer VS

“Vom Gestalten zum Kuratieren: Autonomie im hybriden Designprozess”

From designing to curating: autonomy in the hybrid design process

In: Designforschung und KI — Ästhetische Transformation im Zeitalter artifizieller Systeme, ed. Lars C. Grabbe. Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2025, pp. 87–105 · Sole author.

A peer-reviewed examination of how generative AI changes the way designers work, developed through interviews with experienced designers from Germany, Switzerland and Canada. The chapter argues for the Augmented Designer: whoever actively curates and modifies AI-generated proposals keeps their own signature while opening up new design possibilities — and it names the skills this requires if aesthetic diversity is to survive hybrid design processes.

ISBN 978-3-658-49797-2 (print) · 978-3-658-49798-9 (eBook) · DOI 10.1007/978-3-658-49798-9_6