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📍 WHAT IS THIS PAGE?
An overview of coming soon, current, and past projects by AIxDESIGN - serving as a low-key and Notion-native version living in parallel to the portfolio page on aixdesign.co.
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🗨️ WANT TO WORK TOGETHER?
Let’s talk! You can find us at hello[at]aixdesign.co.
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<aside> 🎼 A collaborative project with imi-lab on AI and music. Together we will explore the ecosystem around AI, and how AI-generated sounds and organic/human-made music might co-exist harmoniously, alongside each other - exploring potentially more equitable ways of doing Gen AI.
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2026 - ongoing
The story of "the cloud" makes the internet sound weightless, ephemeral, inconsequential.
It makes us think our digital lives float somewhere, nowhere near the ground. But every TikTok scroll, every ChatGPT prompt, every Netflix binge runs through actual data centers that gulp water, strain energy grids, and ignite conflict over land and resources.
This is not new. There is a ton of academic research, investigative journalism, and creative projects that document the environmental impact of digital infrastructures. But it's trapped in PDFs nobody reads, disconnected from our everyday digital actions.
Meanwhile, Big Tech gets away with vague green pledges while communities in Virginia face droughts, Ireland’s energy grid buckles under the weight of data centers, and Uruguayan locals fight water battles with Google. The information is out there, but it's not accessible when you need it.
r00ts is our attempt at "grounding the cloud". We're making it simple to see the real-world impact of your digital life, turning abstract debates into concrete ideas anyone can grasp.
Timeline: January 2026 – Ongoing
Team: Ploipailin Flynn (Project Lead), Nadia Piet (Creative Lead), Elena Zaghis (Content), Ana Marques (Graphic Design)
Partners: xxx
Funding: Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie - Grounding the Cloud
Why it mattersHow we're doing itLink(s): x
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2026 - ongoing
You’re sitting on a goldmine of critical AI research. So are we. So is everyone in our networks. So why can't we surface our knowledge when we need it?
Confer is a small, community-governed AI tool that makes collective knowledge actually searchable, built with and for those who are done feeding their thinking into Big Tech’s black box.
Timeline: February 2026 – Ongoing
Team: Ploipailin Flynn (Project Lead), Nadia Piet (Creative Lead), Elena Zaghis (Content), Ana Marques (Graphic Design)
Partners: xxx
Funding: Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie
Why it mattersHow we're doing itLinks: x
Secret of Mana, 1993
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🍿 2025 - 2027
AI Greenhouse is a two-year collaboration between the Netherlands Film Academy and AIxDESIGN to research and cultivate (more) responsible approaches to AI in filmmaking and film eduction.
Led by artist-researchers Nadia Piet and Pablo Núñez Palma, AI Greenhouse organizes public event programmes, runs artistic experiments, and compiles towards a Creative’s AI Literacy Cookbook — a set of experimental pedagogy practices to contribute to the ethical, sustainable and community-driven integration of AI in filmmaking.
URL:
https://www.filmacademie.ahk.nl/en/graduates/2025/projects/ai-greenhouse-cultivating-responsible-engagement-with-ai-in-filmmaking/ https://aixdesign.co/posts/ai-greenhouse
[PROJECT] AI Greenhouse w/ NFA
TIME: 2025 - 2027
TEAM: Nadia Piet (AIxD Creative Lead + NFA Researcher-in-Residence), Ploipailin Flynn (AIxD Project Lead), Pablo Nunez (Researcher-in-Residence, NFA), & Mieke Bernink (NFA Project Lead), Elena Zaghis (Content Lead), Ana Marques (Graphic Design)
FUNDING: The AI Greenhouse project is part of a larger research consortium called AI Squared, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO)
Still from Eryk Salvaggio's Lecture Performance the Age of Noise
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🍿 2025 - 2026
AI Images by Everyone is a continuation of our earlier work with Better Images of AI and Archival Images of AI - where we host workshops and create materials to help anyone make better images of AI.
URL: Webpage + Intro Video + Research Log
TIME: 2025
TEAM: Nadia Piet (AIxD Creative Lead), Ploipailin Flynn (AIxD Project Lead), Rasa Bocyte (Sound & Vision collaborator), Elena Zaghis (Content Lead), Shweta Allam (Content Contributor), advisory from Better Images of AI
FUNDING: Netherland Institute of Sound and Vision
CREDIT: A collaboration between AIxDESIGN and the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision with advisory from Better Images of AI ✨
HOW TO GET INVOLVED: AI Images by Everyone is a continuation of our earlier work with Better Images of AI and Archival Images of AI - where we host workshops and create materials to help anyone make better images of AI.
CREDIT: A collaboration between AIxDESIGN and the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision with advisory from Better Images of AI ✨
IMG SRC: Model Collapse by Nadia Piet
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