Thomas Klinkowstein, adjunct professor – CCE of graduate communications design, will be conducting an art project on a sub-orbital space flight with Virgin Galactic in 2027. As part of his year-long research leading up to lift-off, he has been facilitating creative workshops with students in the US and abroad. At Yonsei University in South Korea, Klinkowstein taught speculative design students a “Synthetic Memories” workshop, which involved using ChatGPT to predict their future careers, and creating a design responding to their results. In Pennsylvania, he ran a “Space Art Challenge,” in which middle school students created triptychs around the theme of “space as place, space as persona, and space as idea.”
