Hvad har AI med arkitektur og design at gøre, og hvordan kan vi bruge teknologien til vores fordel i stedet for at lade os fascinere af den og gentage fortidens fejl og fejlagtige forestillinger om mennesker? Det kan du blive klogere på i dette sidste afsnit af Inclusion Talks – A Universal Design Perspective.

AI predictions tend to rest on an averaged notion of what a human being is. In this final episode of Inclusion Talks, we take a closer look at how the growing use of AI in architecture and design processes risks reinforcing historical assumptions about what is deemed 'normal', with the consequence that difference is filtered out, concealed, and ultimately erased.

For this conversation, we have invited Canadian professor and director of the Inclusive Design Research Centre, Jutta Treviranus, who argues that the current wave of AI has underscored the importance of genuinely involving those who stand to benefit most from change.

Together with former Bevica Scholarship Programme recipient Aleksandra Mostovaja, she explores how we might move towards a future that embraces the full spectrum of human diversity – rather than allowing AI to lead us back into the patterns of the past.

On the podcast you will meet Jutta Treviranus and Aleksandra Mostovaja.

Jutta Treviranus is a Professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU) in Toronto, Canada. She is the director and founder of the Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC) and the Inclusive Design Institute (IDI) and is a world expert in the field of universal design. Treviranus has established the IDRC as a leading international centre for inclusive design in digital systems and leads the Inclusive Design Institute. Her work has pioneered personalised digital accessibility and contributed significantly to international accessibility standards and legislation.

Aleksandra Mostovaja is a Master Student at Sciences Po Paris and former Bevica Scholarship Programme travel grant recipient for her project Advancing Spatial Equity Through AI: A Study of Universal Design Principles in the Public Sphere in which she has explored how AI understands inclusive language by studying how AI visualises urban landscapes.

Moussa Mchangama is your host and a leading strategic facilitator and change agent in the Nordic cultural conversations about diversity, equity and inclusion.

Listen to the episode and the rest of the series Inclusion Talks – A Universal Design perspective here:

Inclusion Talks has been developed in a collaboration between the Bevica Foundation and Cafx – Copenhagen Architcture Forum.

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