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PAPERS: Public Design Education: Plural Practices and Situated Teaching and Learning
Location: Appleton Tower, LT1
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Session Chair: Luis Garcia, Carnegie Mellon University

Presentation 4

Situated Pedagogies for Public Design through GenAI

Anca Serbanescu¹, Noor Murteza²

1: University of Salford; 2: Indiana University Bloomington

This paper explores the integration of Generative AI (GenAI) in design education through the lens of public design learning. Drawing on critical pedagogy and a situated classroom case study, it examines how GenAI reshapes the epistemic and ontological journey of becoming a public designer. The study foregrounds ethical, cognitive, and systemic challenges associated with human–AI co-creativity, highlighting the pedagogical implications for cultivating political sensitivity, collaborative reflexive capabilities, and design agency. Through an in-class activity involving persona co-creation with GenAI, the paper illustrates how students engage with plural and contextually grounded design practices. It concludes by advocating for inclusive, reflexive, and sustainability-aware pedagogical frameworks that support responsible GenAI integration in public design education.