Abstract
The Makers Musuem is an exploration in rethinking the typology of a museum as more than just a repository of artifacts and gallery spaces but also a space for the act of creation. Incorporating the use of Artificial Intelligence and working in tandem with Human stakeholders, the Museum is a product of Generative processes, Collective decisions and Specialist interventions. With the intention of the Museum’s architecture as zeitgeist, the Museum reconfigures itself over time to suit the needs and desires of the age, through a series of modular components. This too is a sustainability strategy by removing the need to demolish and make way for the new, to expand when demand increases, or shrink in scale when demand falls significantly in an event such as a global pandemic, optimizing energy and resource consumption. The thesis seeks to pose the question: Can Artificial Intelligence allow for more democratic collective design processes? What are the systems that would support such an Architecture?