Design and Artificial Intelligence: Ethical, Plural, and Situated Perspectives
2025-11-25
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming creative, educational, and research practices in the design field. However, these transformations unfold within unequal global frameworks in which certain perspectives, languages, and cultural traditions have gained greater visibility and influence than others. This special issue seeks to broaden the debate by incorporating critical, situated, and plural perspectives that help understand and reimagine the relationship between design and AI beyond dominant approaches. We invite empirical, theoretical, critical and pedagogical contributions that analyze how AI manifests, challenges, or reshapes design practices across diverse local and global contexts. We especially welcome work on responsible design and algorithmic governance, AI education and literacy, situated practices and algorithmic justice, data sovereignty and infrastructures, and non-generative AI applications, as well as other approaches that expand the conversation about the role of design in the age of AI.
Guest Editors
- Andrés Téllez, North Carolina State University, USA
- Valeria López Torres, North Carolina State University, USA
- Marco Vinicio Ferruzca, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico
- Ross Brisco, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
