Fabulating More-than-Human Data With AI
Presented by Michael Dunbar & Chris Speed, RMIT University
DETAILS
Free, booking required
RMIT Building 98
102 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC, Australia
How can AI help us move beyond human-centered urban data? This hands-on workshop invites designers, urbanists, and ecologists to use synthetic data as a tool for reimagining multispecies entanglements and challenging conventional metrics through data fabulation.
Participants will generate speculative datasets for a new housing development, imagining how urban spaces might account for multispecies interactions, dwelling patterns, seasonal movements, and ecological interdependencies. Through prompt engineering and collaborative experimentation, the session expands possibilities for urban data, fostering more inclusive and relational approaches to planning and policy.
There is also a session prior to Melbourne Design Week on May 13.
Participants
Michael Dunbar
Michael (Miek) Dunbar is an interaction designer, researcher and educator at RMIT, Melbourne, where he explores how data and design can support respectful, regenerative relations between humans and more-than-human worlds. He co-leads the Greater Melbourne City Portrait with Regen Melbourne and develops experimental tools like Kin Bank to reimagine ecological data practices and futures.
Chris Speed
Chris Speed is Professor of Design for Regenerative Futures at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, where he collaborates with a wide variety of communities and partners to explore how design provides methods to adapt toward becoming a regenerative society. Chris has an established track record in directing large complex grants and educational programmes with academic, industry and third sector partners, that apply design and data methods to social, environmental and economic challenges.