AIxDESIGN
Research · Strategy · Program management · Tools · Community Building · Writing
AIxDesign (AIxD) is a global community of designers, creative technologists, and activists using AI in pursuit of creativity, justice and joy. Since 2022 I’ve served as General Manager:
→ built program management stack (Notion, Slack) to help the community and its program leads design, organise and publish research programs, tools, and published works;
→ co-authored 2022–2024 funding and grant applications
→ co-authored AIxDesign positioning and program strategy
→ Program management for all AIxD Programs since 2022:
2023
- <STORY+CODE> with Submarine Channel’s SubLab
- Better Images of Responsible AI, with Better Images of AI + Sound&Vision
- Relaunch AIxD website
2024
Slow AI: definitions & practical applications of alternative AI imaginaries
- Small AI
- Ancestral AI
- Esoteric AI
Managing (read: shepherding) a decentralised, volunteer-run community organisation is hard. Publishing consistently good content from that group is even harder.
→ Community growth of 150% across channels with 8000 members (and growing!)
→ On-time and on-budget delivery of 2022 Programs. Outputs include:
- 15 online-hosted talks and workshops (see Youtube) with 400+ attendees from 28 countries
- AIxDesign’s Guide to body-based AI tools; coming Oct 2022
- AIxDesign’s Guide to data (h)activism; coming Dec 2023
- AIxDesign’s Guide to Experimenting with AI; coming Dec 2023
- AIxDesign’s Guide to AI-generated sounds; coming Jan 2023
- Report: The Landscape of AIxDesign; coming Mar 2023
It's rare to find people you sync so effortlessly with that your output and energy increase three-fold. For me, Ploi is one of those people. I worked with Ploi as a colleague on clients projects, and on a day-to-day basis for AIxDesign. 11/10 would recommend.
— Nadia, founder of AIxDesign, former Head of Creative Technology, DEPT