Reshaping higher education designs and futures: postdigital co-design with generative artificial intelligence

Zeivots, S et al (2025) 'Reshaping higher education designs and futures: postdigital co-design with generative artificial intelligence.' Postdigital Science and Education. doi: 10.1007/s42438-025-00595-4

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Abstract

This article examines how collaborative design practices in higher education are reshaped through postdigital entanglement with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). We collectively explore how co-design, an inclusive, iterative, and relational approach to educational design and transformation, expands in meaning, practice, and ontology when GenAI is approached as a collaborator. The article brings together 19 authors and three open reviewers to engage with postdigital inquiry, structured in three parts: (1) a review of literature on co-design, GenAI, and postdigital theory; (2) 11 situated contributions from educators, researchers, and designers worldwide, each offering practice-based accounts of co-design with GenAI; and (3) an explorative discussion of implications for higher education designs and futures. Across these sections, we show how GenAI unsettles assumptions of collaboration, knowing, and agency, foregrounding co-design as a site of ongoing material, ethical, and epistemic negotiation. We argue that postdigital co-design with GenAI reframes educational design as a collective practice of imagining, contesting, and shaping futures that extend beyond human knowing.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	co-design, generative artificial intelligence (AI), higher education, postdigital futures, collaborative design
Divisions:	School of Education
Date Deposited:	13 Nov 2025 16:51
Last Modified:	17 Nov 2025 13:49
ISSN:	2524-485X
URN:	https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/17401

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