The expression "The Big Smoke" evokes a big city and the pollution associated with it. The Big Smoke takes visitors on a journey through time and space, with a central theme: air pollution.
The project draws on Design Fiction through a speculative and critical approach aimed at inspiring alternative visions of the future, by materialising potential scenarios. The deployment of generative AI opens up an imaginary world around climate change and encourages the exploration of related concepts (urbanisation, density, flows, etc.).
How can we use AI to explore our relationship with our environment in a speculative and forward-looking way?
The Big Smoke combines research and simulations in order to materialise non-visible elements, explore scenarios, encourage visitors' curiosity and provoke discussion. The simulations images are generated with text to image machine learning model.
