FROM TOOL TO CO-CREATOR: REFORM PRINCIPLES FOR AI-INTEGRATED ART AND DESIGN EDUCATION IN CHINESE AND UZBEKISTANI UNIVERSITIES
Abstract
The proliferation of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) tools—Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and DALL-E 3 being the most conspicuous examples—has precipitated something rather more serious than a mere technological upgrade in art and design practice. It amounts, we would argue, to a wholesale restructuring of industrial logic and working methods. For university-level art and design education in China and Uzbekistan, the implications are difficult to overstate. Both systems now face the uncomfortable necessity of rethinking their pedagogical foundations.
Keywords
artificial intelligence, art and design education, pedagogical reform, human-machine collaboration, comparative education.How to Cite
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