A workshop in design fiction and AI to imagine the future of healthcare

"We introduced students to a methodology for producing a film. They began using Google AI Studio and other large language models to produce a pitch, then a story, from which they began producing scenes, composed of different shots. Thanks to this methodology, combined with AI, we can very quickly, in one or two days, obtain two or three iterations on the same subject. From there, they began to produce videos from still images (...) They accomplished work that would have taken about a month and a half in a studio" explained Zaki Jawhari, professionnal designer and teacher at L'École design Nantes Atlantique. 

"It was a design fiction exercise for our students, an exercise in storytelling, as well as in constructing a complete narrative, exploring themes, and learning about these themes, because these international students come from all over the world (...) In addition to all these challenges, they also had to produce images that were appropriate and not too disturbing, neither too dystopian nor too disconnected from these issues, while maintaining an innovative vision. Once again, we are very proud of them. The international designers we train at this school are truly indispensable for the future. Wherever human beings are at the center of a system or participate in a system, a designer has a role to play!" explained Simon Lozac'h, head of the Master's program. 

"A fast workshop like this helps our students understand what it means to work in professional conditions. Most of the time our students don't realize how capable they are to produce incredible outputs and when you give them a pretty stressful situation, in five days, with a real partner, for a real event. They produced a real output and they actually discover kind of superpowers."