Date & Time:

📅 Friday, 22 August 2025
🕤 9:30 AM – 1 PM
📍 HB8-18, Bradley Building, University of South Australia (Level 8 above MOD), Kaurna Country (Adelaide)

About the Event:

Join us for AI & 3D, a mini-symposium exploring the rich intersections of artificial intelligence, 3D design, and creative practice. This half-day event is designed for game designers, architects, animators, industrial and transport designers, and anyone experimenting with emerging tools and workflows that blend AI with 3D environments and interaction.

Our program will include a series of short talks and provocations on current practice, speculative futures, and the challenges and opportunities AI presents to spatial and visual designers.

What to Expect:

We’re excited to welcome Superscale from RMIT, who will be joining us in Adelaide to present their latest work at the intersection of architecture, AI, and creative computation.

Their experimental approach to scale, automation, and spatial computing sets the tone for a series of fast-paced talks and provocations from other leading speakers across fields such as games, animation, industrial design, and transport futures. Topics will include current explorations of AI in creative workflows, avatar design using Blender and generative tools, and the broader implications of AI on speculative and spatial practice.

Whether you’re curious about creative AI workflows, already experimenting with emerging tools, or working across digital spaces and design, this event offers space to share, connect, and imagine new directions.

Light refreshments will be provided.

Schedule:

Speaker Sessions:

Time	Speaker Name	Talk Title
9:30-9:40	Associate Professor Erik Champion (UniSA)	Introduction and Welcome
9:40-10:10	Dr Patrick Macasaet & Vei Tan (Superscale & RMIT AUD Immersive Futures Lab)	Misappropriated Worlds: Architectural design through Glitches, Frictions and Fictions
10:10-10:30	Lina Srivastava (MOD Visiting Futures Fellow)	Building Community Governance for AI
10:30-11:00	BREAK-COFFEE/TEA
11:00-11:20	Dr Mike Cooper (Tantalus Media)	What game developers really want from AI
11:20-11:40	Christel Cherryadi (Mirror XR)	Designing The Future of Creative Industries through Ethical Innovation
11:40-12:00	Dr James Calvert, (UniSA)	‘AI as an aesthetic’ / ‘metamorphosis with AI’
12:00-12:20	Andrew Lymn-Penning, (UniSA))	AI Prompt Battles as Tools for Architectural Education
12.20-12:40	Junru Huang, (UniSA)	AI + Automotive Design & Industrial Design
12:40-13:00	Dr Lisa Bailey (Director, MOD., UniSA)	Conversations and chaos: AI on the Exhibition Floor

Workshops:

Workshop 1: Learning AI Prompts as Prompt Battles
Facilitator: Andrew Lymn-Penning
1.30-3.30 PM
Location: HB8-18 Bradley Building, North Terrace, (Level 8 above MOD, elevators to left from foyer)

This workshop will demonstrate the educational potential of AI image generation as “Prompt Battles” - to train students in the craft of writing precise, spatially literate prompts. Andrew will show you how to design and modify Prompt Battles. The goal isn’t just better images, but a deeper interrogation of how we might shape, subvert, and collaborate with AI systems.

Workshop 2: Avatar Design Showdown – Blender vs. Generative AI
Facilitator: Christel Cherryadi
1.30-3.30 PM
Location: Level 2 Bradley Building, North Terrace, (Level 2 above MOD, elevators to left from foyer)

Ready to experience the difference between traditional 3D modelling and AI-generated designs? In this hands-on workshop, participants will compare two creative workflows -Blender modelling and AI-driven avatar generation - by designing an avatar from a popular game. Using a generative AI tool, participants will describe their avatar and see how quickly AI can create it, before comparing it to a manually crafted model in Blender. This fun, interactive session will showcase the strengths and limitations of both approaches, while diving into the ethical implications of AI in design. Through this experiment, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of how AI can augment your creativity, speed up production, and raise important questions about bias, representation, and control in digital design.

Why Attend?

Discover how AI is reshaping creative workflows in 3D environments
Hear from local and visiting experts in architecture, games, and interaction design
Connect with fellow designers, researchers, and creative technologists
Explore the potential of AI as a design collaborator, tool, and disruptor

Free Registration:

This is a free event, but registration is essential via Humanitix to assist with room planning and catering.