Text by Martina Metzner. Originally published at ndion
Photos: Christof Jakob
Reading from The Digital Shift at the Frankfurt Book Fair
Prof. Philipp Thesen read from his book at the Frankfurt Book Fair as part of Design Talk. The reading was followed by a discussion with Martina Bergmann, Managing Director of the Frankfurt Trade Fair for Media and Service, and the design and architecture journalist Martina Metzer.
The setting for the first Design Talk of the year, part of a series of talks organized by the German Design Council in cooperation with the Hessian Ministry of Economics, Energy, Transport and Housing, could not have been more appropriate. At the Frankfurt Book Fair, people met in the newly relocated library of the German Design Council, which is now housed in the Messe Frankfurt archives. While we humans can only accumulate a very limited amount of knowledge through reading and expertise, Artificial Intelligence is clearly superior to us because of its far larger database. Or so it seems. Yet Artificial Intelligence is still limited when it comes to intuition. But research and development is also being done in this area. One thing is certain: Artificial Intelligence will soon be a part of everyday life. With language assistants like Alexa, we are already coming close to this.
Nevertheless, Artificial Intelligence is only being considered by many companies and industries with hesitance. Design can play a decisive role in the acceptance of this technology. Philipp Thesen, Professor for "Human-System Interaction" in the Industrial Design course at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and a fundamental member of the German Design Council since 2018, also underlines this. For the Design Talk, Thesen read from three chapters in his recently published work "The Digital Shift: Design's new role as artificial intelligence transforms into personal intelligence," which he wrote together with his former colleague Christian von Reventlow. In the book, Thesen draws primarily on his many years as Head of Design at Deutsche Telekom. He then discussed "Humanizing Technologies: AI and Design" with Martina Bergmann, who is responsible for digital business at Messe Frankfurt.
Text by Martina Metzner. Originally published at ndion
Photos: Christof Jakob
Reading from The Digital Shift at the Frankfurt Book Fair
Prof. Philipp Thesen read from his book at the Frankfurt Book Fair as part of Design Talk. The reading was followed by a discussion with Martina Bergmann, Managing Director of the Frankfurt Trade Fair for Media and Service, and the design and architecture journalist Martina Metzer.
The setting for the first Design Talk of the year, part of a series of talks organized by the German Design Council in cooperation with the Hessian Ministry of Economics, Energy, Transport and Housing, could not have been more appropriate. At the Frankfurt Book Fair, people met in the newly relocated library of the German Design Council, which is now housed in the Messe Frankfurt archives. While we humans can only accumulate a very limited amount of knowledge through reading and expertise, Artificial Intelligence is clearly superior to us because of its far larger database. Or so it seems. Yet Artificial Intelligence is still limited when it comes to intuition. But research and development is also being done in this area. One thing is certain: Artificial Intelligence will soon be a part of everyday life. With language assistants like Alexa, we are already coming close to this.
Nevertheless, Artificial Intelligence is only being considered by many companies and industries with hesitance. Design can play a decisive role in the acceptance of this technology. Philipp Thesen, Professor for "Human-System Interaction" in the Industrial Design course at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and a fundamental member of the German Design Council since 2018, also underlines this. For the Design Talk, Thesen read from three chapters in his recently published work "The Digital Shift: Design's new role as artificial intelligence transforms into personal intelligence," which he wrote together with his former colleague Christian von Reventlow. In the book, Thesen draws primarily on his many years as Head of Design at Deutsche Telekom. He then discussed "Humanizing Technologies: AI and Design" with Martina Bergmann, who is responsible for digital business at Messe Frankfurt.