Reshaping Higher Education Designs and Futures: Postdigital Co-design with Generative Artificial IntelligenceShow others and affiliations
2025 (English)In: Postdigital Science and Education, ISSN 2524-485X, Vol. 7, no 4, p. 1334-1374Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This article examines how collaborative design practices in higher education are reshaped through postdigital entanglement with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). We collectively explore how co-design, an inclusive, iterative, and relational approach to educational design and transformation, expands in meaning, practice, and ontology when GenAI is approached as a collaborator. The article brings together 19 authors and three open reviewers to engage with postdigital inquiry, structured in three parts: (1) a review of literature on co-design, GenAI, and postdigital theory; (2) 11 situated contributions from educators, researchers, and designers worldwide, each offering practice-based accounts of co-design with GenAI; and (3) an explorative discussion of implications for higher education designs and futures. Across these sections, we show how GenAI unsettles assumptions of collaboration, knowing, and agency, foregrounding co-design as a site of ongoing material, ethical, and epistemic negotiation. We argue that postdigital co-design with GenAI reframes educational design as a collective practice of imagining, contesting, and shaping futures that extend beyond human knowing.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer Nature , 2025. Vol. 7, no 4, p. 1334-1374
Keywords [en]
Co-design, Collaborative design, Generative artificial intelligence (AI), Higher education, Postdigital futures
National Category
Information Systems, Social aspects
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-373339DOI: 10.1007/s42438-025-00595-4Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105021812997OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-373339DiVA, id: diva2:2017995
Note
QC 20260127
2025-12-022025-12-022026-01-27Bibliographically approved