DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: March 13th, 2026
COURSE START: Sept 7th or Nov 2nd, 2026
SCHOLARSHIPS AMOUNT
• Scholarships covering from 5.000€ to 8.000€ of the total tuition fee both for the Academic Master’s Programme and the Dual Award Master’s Programme.
INTRO
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly moving from abstract computation to everyday experience. It perceives, anticipates, negotiates, and adapts. Yet its potential is rarely interrogated in the mundane scale of daily life, where coordination, small gestures, and informal behaviours silently compose the human condition.
This competition invites applicants to observe and rethink micro-situations from the everyday, and to explore how AI could act not as automation or replacement, but as a situated system that collaborates with people. The aim is not technological spectacle or science fiction, but the ability to describe and redesign the subtle choreography of life with intelligence that is embodied, ethical, and attentive. Instead of asking “What can AI do?”, we encourage participants to ask “Where does AI belong?” and
“How can it support human agency rather than diminish it?”. The focus is on proportion, context, and relationships: the way intelligence emerges through interaction rather than in isolation.
BRIEF
Design does not simply solve problems; it frames them, reveals them, and reorients them. Choose a microsituation from everyday life and analyse it “as is”, mapping behaviours, frictions, strategies, and forms of coordination that often remain unnoticed. After a phase of observation and reconstruction, you will perform a “Situation Replay” introducing a situated AI system.
The AI should perceive, interpret, adapt and learn over time, without replacing human decision-making or agency.
The proposal may introduce support that is functional, cognitive, relational, sensory, or organisational, provided that it remains coherent with the context. The goal is to demonstrate sensitivity to everyday life, awareness of scale, ethical responsibility, and the ability to translate intelligence into interaction.
Participants are evaluated not on the technical feasibility of the AI, but on their capacity to observe, imagine, frame, and communicate scenarios where technology operates proportionally and meaningfully.
APPLY NOW When you submit your project you will receive an immediate confirmation email that your submission was received. If you do not receive a confirmation, let us know at: competitions@domusacademy.it