Reimagining Creativity with AI
LG AI Research
A three-year Research Partnership with the School of Design Strategies, engaging with faculty, students, and alumni, along with filmmakers, and tech industry professionals across the globe.
The LG AI Research partnership investigated new possibilities for human–AI co-creative exchanges across academic and cultural contexts. Students and researchers engaged experimental design not as “technology adopters,” but as “critical collaborators.”
Through a constellation of explorations, including an experimental short film, peer-reviewed research publications, a curated exhibition with Parsons students, and ongoing research activities, the projects examined how AI can be mobilized as a creative partner. By reframing AI’s role in academic and artistic practice, the partnership set a stage for re-imagining the ways in which human creativity and machine intelligence intersect, co-produce, and evolve together.
TNS Creativity & AI Symposium and Hackathon showcased dialogue and experimentation around human–AI collaboration, featuring keynotes, workshops, and rapid prototyping with LG’s latest AI platform.
TNS AD+AI was an exhibition, showcasing Parsons’s emerging artists and designers employ machine-enabled techniques to provoke dialogue about artistic agency, systemic biases, the nature of time and reality, and the role of humans in the creative process.
Being the Machine is an award-winning short film from an experimental project that sits as a provocation involving human participants and AI, where language models actively seek to foster creative intimacy.
Human-AI Dynamics in Co-Creative Learning is a peer-reviewed publication based on an exploratory experiment in a virtual environment where a human and a machine agent engaged in collaborative problem-solving and learning activities using reinforcement learning.
AI as Relational Artifacts is a peer-reviewed publication based on an experiment that positioned AI as a relational artifact to students in a series of drawing activities and examined the potential impact of affective relations with machines in socio-cultural creative learning.
How Can AI be Used in Creative Learning? This study was conducted in a Finnish Kindergarten examining the affective relations between AI and children. AI was embodied using a robotic arm and text-to-image model; and positioned as a peer to the children in a series of counter-compositional design exercises.