Dates: 21, 22, 23 April
Proposed Times: 9am-2pm GMT (8pm -1am Melbourne)
For: Architecture, interior design, landscape design, product design, jewellery design, educators
Requirements: Basic knowledge of Rhino, Rhino 8
Outline: Runchat is a design agent and visual canvas for automating creative workflows that runs inside Rhino. This workshop will explore how Runchat can be used to amplify creativity and improve productivity in common design tasks from concept design, visualisation, design development and project management. Participants in the workshop will learn techniques for greater control over generative image making (diagramming, visual storytelling and rendering), how to maintain consistency across views and animations, how to make selective and specific edits to generated images (such as changing materials or locating designs precisely on site) and how to share these workflows as reusable tools that anyone in design practice can easily use.
The second half of the workshop will cover how to use Claude in Runchat to develop tools for modelling, analysis and project management. Participants will learn how to specify design requirements for implementation by language models, implement and simulate design constraints for exploring problem spaces, iterate using screenshots and visual markup instead of writing code, and create web applications that seamlessly integrate with Rhino. The final day of the workshop will work through a series of case studies demonstrating how Runchat enables Rhino to integrate with a range of other software platforms (e.g. Google maps and Google sheets) and illustrate how generative models will soon contribute to more complex parts of the design process (such as site research or town planning applications).
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Please make sure you’ve completed these steps ahead of the first session
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Install Rhino 8 and the Runchat Plugin