Afaina de Jong: Imagining ways of engaging with AITalk
NOTE: Please remember to allow time to reach the 10th floor and to store bags, umbrellas, and liquids in the lockable wardrobe in the lobby area. The event is free and the capacity is limited, so please arrive early to secure your spot.
The conversation will be in English in the exhibition space of "Edvard Munch: Connect the lines” on the 10th floor.
What does it mean to approach AI not simply as a tool, but as a material that artists, designers and communities can question, shape and work with?
In this explorative conversation architect, Afaina de Jong will share ways of thinking and ways of engaging with large language models (LLM), while reflecting on questions of ownership, consent, values, knowledge and power.
De Jong will also share the work of her design initiative “The Embodied Restoration Lab” and its pilot model; a collective reasoning LLM ecosystem. The ecosystem is grounded in the archives of a diasporic community of architects, designers, artists and data scientists in a collective effort to exchange and transfer collective knowledge into a distributed systems ecology of generative algorithmic intelligence. De jong will share critical insights on the process, potential for artists and designers and the pilot model itself.
This talk is part of MUNCH’s explorative initiative for responsible use of artificial intelligence – both as a material for exploration and to make our collections accessible. This has been the focus for the museum’s experimental space (MUNCH Lab) the past years. The experiments developed there, have resulted in the exhibition «Edvard Munch: Connect the lines».
Afaina de Jong Laila Cohen Photography
AFARAI is an Amsterdam-based studio that specializes in spatial design, led by architect Afaina de Jong. The studio’s aim is to cross the boundaries of the traditional architecture practice by dealing with the existing city with an interdisciplinary approach, integrating theory and research with design. As a studio AFARAI considers itself a feminist practice that encourages change on social and spatial issues and that accommodate differences.
De Jong has worked for renowned international firms before establishing her own firm in 2005. With her studio AFARAI she works on the boundary of architecture and art. Her work is deeply connected to represent people and cultural movements that are not traditionally represented in architectural form. De Jong situates her work and its form languages, colors, patterns and narratives in the public realm as part of the collective imaginary. Her discourse is international and intersectional, connecting counterculture with architecture.
De Jong is the head of the Contextual Design MA department at Design Academy Eindhoven. She has been an active educator for years amongst others at the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft and The Sandberg Institute and has been a guest lecturer at Columbia University GSAPP in New York, KTH in Stockholm and the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. Her design research The Multiplicity of Other was commissioned for the Dutch Pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale.
Laila Cohen Photography, Embodied Restoration Lab at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam
