DESCRIPTION
Courses integrate AI, VR/AR, immersive media, video storytelling, speculative workflows, and emerging digital communication methods into studio learning.
WHY IT MATTERS
Students critically engage emerging technologies as creative tools, collaborators, and immersive storytelling systems that reshape communication and design thinking.
KEYWORDS
Immersive learning, AI, speculative futures, digital experimentation, emerging media, innovation
EXAMPLE STUDENT VIDEO
Students transformed traditional presentation workflows into cinematic storytelling experiences by combining 3D modelling, rendering engines, AI image enhancement, animation, sound design, and video editing tools into a single creative pipeline. Still renderings from their design concepts were enhanced using AI to increase realism and atmosphere, then animated with moving characters, dynamic lighting, water effects, and environmental motion. Students generated scripts using AI tools, developed voiceovers through ElevenLabs, composed original music in Suno, and assembled final films using platforms such as Canva, shifting the focus from a client presentation toward a broader marketing and audience-driven storytelling experience.
STUDENT TECH
Students explored emerging technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, and photogrammetry to transform how design concepts are developed, experienced, and communicated. AR allowed students to place and visualize proposed buildings within real-world contexts, while VR enabled immersive spatial walkthroughs that shifted viewers from passive spectators to active participants and co-creators within the experience itself. Across studio, design development, and communication courses, students integrated these tools into iterative workflows that expanded spatial understanding, experiential storytelling, collaboration, and the communication of design intent.
AR BUILDINGS
Students explored the future possibilities of transforming an existing campus building into a multi-storey hub for Design and Visual Arts while integrating four additional floors of student residence aligned with the brand character and future vision of Georgian College. Using augmented reality and immersive visualization tools, students anchored their digital proposals directly onto the existing physical building to understand how conceptual models from the computer could translate into the real world through scale, proportion, form, and contextual presence. Rather than existing only as virtual representations, these overlays allowed students to critically evaluate how future architecture might physically inhabit and transform the campus experience.