Articles on Generative design

May 21, 2026

AI can design cities, but can it understand what matters to people? 10 ways to keep humans in control

Abeer Elshater, Ain Shams University and Hisham Abusaada, Housing and Building National Research Center

Urban design depends heavily on human judgment and field-based understanding.

June 16, 2020

Human existence is now permeated by computer language. Digital artists combine human and computer codes to create digital poetry.

October 19, 2017

Daniel Southwick, University of Toronto and Matt Ratto, University of Toronto

Blade Runner 2049 misses modern strides in artificial intelligence, which is now capable of performing creative work alongside humans.

Daniel Southwick
PhD Candidate, University of Toronto
Matt Ratto
Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
David Thomas Henry Wright
Associate Professor, University of Bergen
Abeer Elshater
Professor of Urban Morphology, Ain Shams University
Hisham Abusaada
Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Housing and Building National Research Center