Nº 135 :: An interface for planning a city: designing an AI-driven platform

Our 135th meetup at Mesh looked at how AI can be built into professional design tools for urban development. The starting point was the UN projection that most future population growth will happen in cities, and the question of how to plan for that growth while keeping living environments good.

Klara Vatn, Design Lead at Spacemaker and formerly a consultant and designer at NRK, and Bilal Chaudhry, a designer at Spacemaker working on concept development and digital product design, gave the joint talk "How can we disrupt the way we build our cities?".

They described Spacemaker's software, which uses AI to turn analysis into design options, and asked whether expert users accept AI-generated solutions and change their workflows. They shared what the team had learned from testing with users, how that changed the product, and how design work was organised in a fast-growing startup. The talk was followed by Q&A and was livestreamed.

Speakers

• Klara Vatn, Design Lead, Spacemaker — How can we disrupt the way we build our cities?
• Bilal Chaudhry, Designer, Spacemaker — How can we disrupt the way we build our cities?

The original event page is on meetup.com.