Duration: 1. 12. 2025 – 31. 8. 2028
Reference: 2025-1-IT02-KA220-HED-000353888
AIDEA aims at increasing the quality of European Design Education and its alignment with the market needs by innovating training curricula, strengthening design schools and academies by incorporating the 3 different meanings of “Intelligence”: The Intelligence of the hand, Artificial Intelligence and Social Intelligence. It will do so enabling teachers to empower students to harness the transformative potential of AI in design while fostering critical thinking, creativity, and ethical awareness.
Activities:
– Participatory research activities
– The definition of the Manifesto for Collective AI Design and the creation of an Handbook of teaching tools and methodologies
– Train The trainers activities (international and local ones)
– Piloting sessions with design students and companies to ideate and prototype I-driven solutions to real-world design challenges
-A specific dissemination and up-scaling strategy including a pre-incubation programme and showcase of prototypes and other dissemination events
Results:
– Participatory analysis document including the list of the existing strategies and AI tools already implemented into the educational sector and the mapping of companies and agencies already using AI
– Manifesto for Collective AI Design
– Handbook of teaching tools and methodologies on the cross-sectorial application of AI and new technologies on art and design
– A pre-incubation programme, Travelling Exhibitions and related catalogue (compendium with pilot projects) and KnowledgeTransfer Days
The role of STEP Institute
We are coordinating WP4, which is dedicated to piloting the Handbook with the final beneficiaries, by organising in-depth formative activities for the partnership’s students and teachers, focusing on the cross-sectoral application of AI to art and design. thus validating the relevance of the Handbook of tools and methodologies developed before introducing them more widely and permanently.
