How can generative visualization make environmental change imaginable—and at what cost? Story Engine brings architecture, planning, environmental science, and artificial intelligence together around a shared design problem. The course examines generative image production and animation as methods of spatial inquiry, scenario building, and public narrative. These tools can visualize environmental change, multiply possible futures, and broaden access to forms of storytelling that once required specialized expertise. Their operation relies on energy-intensive computation, extractive material systems, opaque datasets, hidden labor, and proprietary platforms. This contradiction organizes the course.
*This course meets with ARCH 509-005.
Undergraduate students must register under ARCH 409; Graduate students must register under ARCH 509.
