Ceci n’est pas une chaise: Emerging practices in designer-AI collaboration

Emerging practices of using ‘off the shelf’ AI as a creative partner in design processes are receiving increasing attention research. This paper takes well-known concept ‘framing’ design, along with Schönian ‘surprise’ to explore how human-AI dialogue could work. The approach taken is practice-based, human designer documenting her process inquiry and decision making. We show artificial creativity expressed through misfiring object detection algorithms, further these ‘mistakes’ can be perceived interpreted by designer. contribution research laying foundations for novel dialogic practice.