Designing the Future: AI, Fashion & Creative Education

A panel conversation bringing together faculty, students, and critical voices to explore how artificial intelligence is shaping fashion design, creative practice, and education. It is presented by the AI in Fashion Curriculum & Pedagogy Committee at Fashion at Parsons. The panel looks at the future of Parsons Fashion education in an AI-driven landscape, beginning not with the technology itself but with what makes a Parsons Fashion education distinctive: systems thinking, human-centered design, materiality, experimentation, sustainability, innovation, and the ability to challenge existing models of fashion and production. The discussion asks what kinds of designers and thinkers to cultivate, what to preserve, rethink, and imagine as AI becomes embedded in creative practice and education, and aims to generate questions and principles that can inform guidelines for the use of AI in design and written work across Parsons Fashion.