In this collaborative workshop, Domus Academy professors Stefano Cardini (Course Leader, MA in Design Innovation) and Giovanni Caruso (Course Leader, Master in Interaction Design and Master in Service Design) invite participants to explore the evolving relationship between AI and design. In a playful and creative setting, participants will work together to create a codex, a structured written compilation of future artifacts and their associated information. By creating these “artifacts from the future” and describing their attributes, functions, and underlying logic, the entries will collectively offer a shared vision of how AI might transform design practice in the years ahead.

Through the synthesis of instructions and creative writing, participants will shape this codex by examining how the concepts of creativity, creation and collaboration and how they may be transformed because of AI. By embracing a speculative mindset, the workshop provides a space to critically reflect on AI’s influence on contemporary design, weighing both the risks and the opportunities it brings to the creative field.