What is lost when a process becomes automated? When we curb the act of figuring, that is to say, ‘creating linkages, adjacencies, and intersections’3? When we stop grappling with an idea, teasing out its knots, allowing its unravelling to lead us somewhere unexpected? It’s not that we don’t get the need for a long-term vision in some form. But more... See more

In an increasingly automated world, we’re in danger of losing this intertwined relationship between thinking and making: two different but symbiotic processes, each with rich inherent value. Replacing emergent, tactile, imagination-led processes—these forms of serious play—with AI prompts strips away something magical. It removes a reciprocal... See more