Teaching

Cultural Transmission

Courses, workshops, and frameworks for emerging technology, narrative design, and creative practice.

Primary Role · Fashion Institute of Technology

Training faculty to retool creative pedagogy for the age of machine agents. Not preparing them to survive it. Preparing them to lead it. Six workshop series. Twelve sessions per semester. One hundred faculty across twenty departments.

Philosophy

Teaching as cultural transmission — not information delivery.

Applied Workshops

Every workshop is a way of teaching someone to do what the essays describe. The workshops prove the ideas are buildable, not just arguable.

Words2Worlds

Build a world from a sentence

2 hours

Turn words into images, video, 3D environments, and interactive experiences. Prompt engineering as creative practice. No coding required.

What participants make: A complete visual world generated from a single written description
Hands-on workshop·Faculty, designers, writers
Connects to:Essay 5Essay 6

Vibe Coding

Let AI write what you describe

3 hours

Conversational programming. Describe what you want. Watch it build. Refine through dialogue. The code is a material you shape with language.

What participants make: A functional prototype built entirely through natural language description
Workshop + build session·Faculty, creative technologists
Connects to:Essay 8

MirrorLab

Your face as interface

90 minutes

Live capture recasts your reflection into canvases of light, shadow, color, and sound. Gesture as data, then form.

What participants make: An interactive mirror that responds to your facial expressions and movement
Demo + experimentation·Artists, performers, designers
Connects to:Essay 12Essay 9

Scan-2-Scene

Physical space into virtual space

2 hours

From object to asset. Phone capture through photogrammetry, Gaussian splats, and NeRF. The physical world as raw material for the virtual.

What participants make: A 3D-captured object or space ready for virtual deployment
Capture session + processing·Designers, architects, preservationists
Connects to:Essay 7Essay 4

Mediterranean Companion

AI as travel intelligence

Faculty demo

A faculty demonstration piece. An AI companion that understands place, history, and context — not a search engine, but a knowledgeable friend.

What participants make: A location-aware AI guide for a specific geography
Presentation + Q&A·Faculty across departments
Connects to:Essay 3

FRS Workshops

Workshop details arriving soon.

Course catalog arriving soon.