Prof Cert in AI for Design
Part of the CFA offerings at NCAD, the Professional Certificate in AI for Design seeks to provide a framework for learners to explore various viewpoints on the future of AI and how designers can embrace AI technologies and methodologies to position themselves at the cutting edge of design innovation.
Artificial Intelligence is a transformative force revolutionising design. The Professional Certificate in AI for Design programme explores this rapidly evolving field, helping learners to navigate design challenges and opportunities in the age of AI.
This programme has been created for designers looking to refine and develop their use of AI, enabling creative practitioners to seamlessly incorporate artificial intelligence tools and methods into their design process and learn how to design for and with AI.
The programme explores AI's transformative impact on design and how to anticipate future trends. Introducing fundamental principles, methods, skills, and theories of AI for design helps future proof design careers and position learners at the forefront of design innovation.
The Professional Certificate in AI for Design programme allows participants to develop their specialist practice, their professional, technical and organisational skills and their knowledge and application of critical contexts to:
- ENGAGE with emerging technology, tools and practices to create continual change in the creative sector.
- EXPAND creative thinking to support a change of perspective across and beyond the sector.
- CONNECT with social and cultural change to create impact.
- ALIGN learning and teaching to a change-led view of the world, society, economies and sectors in and beyond Ireland.
- POSITION change from a communication and content led place.
The programme aims to:
- Unlock new thinking and perspectives, to generate novel concepts and solutions.
- Provide participants with requisite knowledge and skills to creatively contextualise their practice and imaginatively demonstrate its wider validity.
- Critically evaluate and engage with contemporary debates regarding practice-based research, practice-led research and cognate creative methodologies.
Programme Specification and Module Descriptor
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The programme is made up of one module: PGCFAD1054 Design Principles AI for Design.