Group Project: Concept Design
Background
This course will teach you about AI, cities, ethics, and strategy. This assignment aims to help you apply the various concepts you’ve learned in the course to a design project. As a designer, you can be confident that you’ve grasped these ideas sufficiently only when you can work with them effectively.
Learning Objectives
Upon finishing this task, you can devise a concept design for a city-scale problem using a responsible machine learning-based solution. You will also develop the skills to construct a system that is contestable by design for computer vision technology.
Instructions
- During your classes, your group will be given time and space to work on your concept design.
- You should use the workshops that expose you to ML and ethics tools to ensure your design is grounded in a sufficient understanding of the technology and ethical considerations.
Product
Upon completion of this assignment, you will have created a concept design which satisfies the following criteria:
- Describes an ML-based system grounded in a practical understanding of the technology.
- Specifically, it uses image data collected at street level.
- It is aimed at an urban issue the Amsterdam municipality could be struggling with.
- Describes a system that is contestable by design. See the attached poster for a summary of what this means.
The concept design is delivered in the form of:
- Annotated portfolio: A PDF booklet containing the various artifacts produced throughout the design project, with annotations indicating what each shows, and with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license applied.
Follow-up
- You will deliver the annotated portfolio at the end of the final week and receive written feedback from your instructors sometime after delivery. You will use all the material you produce throughout this assignment as the foundation for your paper. The design project itself does not count toward your final grade.