Places and spaces for ideas

Although ideation is situated not only in the design studio, but in many "other places", the traditional studio represents a place, space and setting where designers typically ideate through sketching, building physical models and proposing projects in a shared creative environment. Indeed, in the context of education, the studio embodies the creative learning process where, moreover, there is no clear border between theory and practice. But in the digital age, designers, both in professional practice and education are experiencing how studio practices are changing effected by hardware and software choices and the use of online platforms and AI technologies. And so, the concept of the studio is changing too, including both physical and virtual settings. However, designers, as problem solvers, are apt at adjusting to new materials and technologies, changing conditions and methods resulting in the networked, hybrid design studio that bridges the physical and virtual worlds of creativity.