Maggie Mustaklem is a design lead and doctoral researcher focusing on the implications of AI in design.
Maggie’s research project, Design Interrupted, centres on the “everyday AI” in platforms like Pinterest, Instagram (and increasingly generative tools) that designers and architects use to search for inspiration. She is interested in how these tools may be flattening what designers see for inspiration, influencing what they ultimately produce.
Maggie holds a Master of Arts in History of Design from the Royal College of Art and Victoria & Albert Museum and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Michigan.
Design process, artificial intelligence, creative industries, material and visual culture, design history, design futures, architecture.
This programme supports research in the sphere of AI & Work.
This project studies the affordances of algorithmic image search for design inspiration in creative work.
The project studies algorithmic image search, inspiration and creativity in professional creative work. It uses visual art as a facilitation method, using visual language to describe a visual research problem.
18 March 2024
Current AI Visuals are one a one-size fits all sci-fi fantasy, highlights OII doctoral researcher Maggie Mustaklem. In her latest blog she explains why as AI’s remit grows, this needs to change.
26 July 2023
AI is changing how designers search for inspiration. What does this mean for the future of design asks OII researcher Maggie Mustaklem.
13 August 2020
