GenAI feeds ideation

Generative artificial intelligence, GenAI is already being employed as a tool by designers in what is referred to as machine co-creativity and augmented design, with the technology not only facilitating ideation but also used as a visioning tool (text-to-image software) for community engagement for public project. But there are limits to GenAI applications, notably issues of context, quality and data bias. That is, GenAI ‘learns’ by analysing existing data so it is afflicted by evidence of in-built bias - which highlights the risk of, say, relying on GenAI for a housing concept. That is, while GenAI is useful as a tool for designers to help create an architectural image, or to generate a seamless to-do-list for housing developers, it is not a blueprint for a complete building scheme, notably for aspects of detailing or from a structural engineering perspective, for which BIM (Building Information Modelling) is typically used as interface for a unified design environment.