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Graduate Communications Design
Fall 2026
Munus Shih
munus.shih@pratt.edu
This week, we'll discuss what is intelligence, and how by expanding the definition, we can bring nuances to how we approach AI and other computational systems
This week, we'll trace how symbols, categories, and rules make ideas operational, and examine what systems reveal or exclude when they represent the world.
This week, we’ll examine simulation as a way of making a model stand in for a world—and ask what has to be simplified, excluded, or invented for the resemblance to work.
This week, we’ll explore how designed behavior turns mechanisms into characters, companions, and social actors, and ask what makes a machine seem intelligent, responsive, or alive.
This week, we’re presenting our Epistemological Research of Technology projects and reflecting on what we learned from our experiments.
This week, guest designer and researcher Tuan Huang leads a lecture and workshop on how our values meet, conflict with, and reshape the values embedded in AI tools.
This week, we’ll explore supervised learning through classification and regression, using Teachable Machine and ml5.js to investigate how examples and labels shape a model’s predictions.