Generative AI for Spatial Design Online Short Course
Course description
Course overview
Through live demonstrations, practical exercises and group discussion, you'll uncover the skills, tools and critical understanding needed to use AI confidently and responsibly within creative workflows for spatial design.
You’ll learn how to generate and refine design concepts from a client brief, create compelling spatial imagery, develop effective prompts and produce presentation-ready visuals. The course also introduces AI-assisted approaches to design documentation, specification writing, sustainability narratives, and client presentations.
A shared project brief runs through the core sessions, allowing you to apply and develop your skills in a practical context, and work on creating a personalised AI workflow tailored to your own design interests and professional practice.
Alongside practical skills, the course examines key ethical and professional considerations, including intellectual property, transparency, and the role of designer judgement in an AI-enhanced creative process.
Please note that many of the tools used during the course operate on subscription or credit-based pricing models. Students are advised to review current platform costs and budget accordingly before the course begins.
Who this course is for
This course is aimed at practising interior and spatial designers seeking structured, discipline-specific CPD in generative AI, as well as students currently studying interior design, spatial design, or architecture at undergraduate or postgraduate level.
The content is grounded in real design workflows and professional scenarios, making it equally relevant to sole practitioners, designers working within studios, and students preparing to enter the profession. Those with an interest in how AI is reshaping design practice, client communication and documentation will find the course particularly valuable.
No prior experience with AI tools is required. The course is designed to meet participants where they are, whether they have never used a generative AI tool or have experimented independently and want a more structured framework for applying these tools in professional practice.
Please note, students should have a basic familiarity with the design process, whether through professional practice or current study in interior design, spatial design or a related discipline. No specialist software skills are required before the course begins.
Key information
- Prompt engineering for spatial and interior design
- AI-assisted concept development and client presentation
- Documentation and specification drafting using AI tools
- Building a personal, repeatable studio workflow
- Ethics, intellectual property, and professional responsibility
Learning outcomes
- Describe the generative AI landscape and identify where relevant tools fit within the spatial design process
- Write effective prompts for image generation, document drafting, and material research using spatial design vocabulary
- Be familiar with the methods needed to generate, curate, and refine concept imagery from a client brief to a professional presentation standard
- Identify ways to use AI tools to produce key documentation including scopes of works, material specifications, and sustainability narratives
- Work on building a personal, repeatable AI-augmented workflow using node-based tools
- Identify the ethical, intellectual property, and professional responsibility considerations relevant to AI use in design practice
- Receive a digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials
- A notebook
- A pen
- A mobile phone with camera
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Tutor
Kristina Thiele
Kristina Thiele is an Associate Lecturer at UAL and co-founder of artsXR, an immersive technology practice based in London working at the intersection of spatial design, XR, and AI. Her practice focuses on creating meaningful, audience-centred immersive experiences for cultural institutions and fashion partners, with recent projects delivered for Tate Modern, Tate Britain, the Wellcome Collection, and the Responsive Fashion Institute, including AI-driven fashion projects such as AI Fashion XR.
Kristina teaches across UAL CCW and Akademie der Mode in Germany, translating emerging technologies into practical creative skills for students and professionals alike. She holds a First Class BA (Hons) in Interior & Spatial Design from Chelsea College of Arts, and her work consistently bridges technology, design, and cultural context, helping others move beyond technical spectacle to build immersive experiences that genuinely resonate.
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