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Unlocking AI: Prompt Engineering
Words → Worlds
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Teaching
Teaching is cultural transmission. Toolmaking. World-seeding. These courses and workshops represent frameworks for thinking, making, and understanding emerging technology.
COURSES: 4
STUDENTS: 500+
PHILOSOPHY
Pedagogy as interface design
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Productive Struggle
Learning happens at the edge of understanding. Friction is a feature, not a bug.
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Making as Thinking
Theory without practice is empty. Ideas clarify through the act of creation.
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Sequence Matters
The order of revelation shapes understanding. Curriculum is information architecture.
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Self-Obsolescence
The best teaching makes itself unnecessary. The goal is autonomous practitioners.
FRS
FACULTY RESEARCH SPACE
Fashion Institute of Technology
Emerging Technology Workshops
A faculty development initiative making spatial computing, AI, and interactive systems accessible to educators across disciplines. Each workshop translates complex technology into immediate creative capability.
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3D Scan-2-Scene
Intro to Spatial Capture
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Virtual Beings
Embodied Avatars & Performance Capture
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The Spatial Canvas
Painting & Sculpting in Mixed Reality
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Interactive Mirror
Gesture as Data, Then Form
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Magic Windows
AR as Everyday Spellcraft
Workshops run throughout the academic year at the Pomerantz Center.
frs@fitnyc.edu →COURSES & WORKSHOPS
Current offerings
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Designing Emotionally Intelligent Systems
USC School of Cinematic ArtsGraduate Seminar15 weeks
A deep dive into creating AI and interactive systems that understand and respond to human emotional states. Combines theory from affective computing, psychology, and interaction design with hands-on prototyping.
Emotion modelingContextual AIEthical considerationsPrototype development
STUDENT OUTCOMES
- →Working emotional computing prototype
- →Research paper for publication
- →Framework for emotional safety in AI
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Spatial Narrative Design
NYU Tisch ITPWorkshop Series6 weeks
How to create stories that exist in three-dimensional space. Explores the intersection of architecture, choreography, and narrative design for XR and immersive experiences.
Spatial dramaturgyAttention choreographyEnvironmental storytellingXR prototyping
STUDENT OUTCOMES
- →Spatial narrative prototype
- →Design documentation
- →Presentation to industry partners
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Worldbuilding as Systems Thinking
MIT Media LabIntensive Workshop1 week
A compressed exploration of how to create coherent, generative fictional worlds. Treats worldbuilding as a rigorous design discipline rather than purely creative exercise.
Rule-based worldsEmergent narrativeConsistency systemsWorld documentation
STUDENT OUTCOMES
- →Complete world bible
- →Generative story engine
- →Team presentation
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The Future of Human-AI Collaboration
Stanford d.schoolExecutive Workshop2 days
For leaders navigating AI integration. Explores frameworks for understanding AI capabilities, designing human-AI workflows, and building organizational AI literacy.
AI capability mappingWorkflow redesignTeam dynamicsEthical leadership
STUDENT OUTCOMES
- →AI integration roadmap
- →Team assessment framework
- →Implementation plan