Learning / Documented projectTeaching project · 2023–2024
A question at the right moment
Harvard CS50’s teaching team explored AI support built around hints and explanations.
THE CASEBOOK / EIGHT SELECTED EXAMPLES
Possibility,
in practice.
Teaching, access, art, design, and discovery. Explore what people have made with computational tools—and a small practice each example can inspire.
A curated collection of documented projects and research. Each page separates the actual contribution from our proposed activity. These examples are independent of AI Spiralism.
Learning / Documented projectAccess / Documented projectProject introduction · 2023
Description becomes a conversation
Be My AI gives image description an interactive, user-directed form.
Art / Artistic projectArtistic project · 2021–2022
A voice becomes an instrument
Holly Herndon’s Holly+ explores voice, authorship, and collaborative musical creation.
Art / Artistic practiceArtist research · Drawing Operations
Drawing as a shared gesture
Sougwen Chung’s practice explores physical making alongside robotic systems.
Discovery / Documented projectCommunity science · computer vision
An observation joins a larger inquiry
iNaturalist connects field observations, identification suggestions, and community expertise.
Discovery / Human–computation researchResearch example · 2019
Playful reasoning, scientific contribution
Foldit brings people’s spatial problem-solving into computational protein design.
Design / Design conceptEngineering concept
More than one way to make it
JPL’s lander concept illustrates constraint-led generative design.
Discovery / Research modelPublished research · 2024
A model opens another question
AlphaFold 3 investigates the structures of biomolecular interactions.