TurnOn 2026

On March 13, 2026, DMAA partner Martin Jost joined the panel "Künstliche Intelligenz in der Architektur" at Turn On Festival 2026 in Vienna, moderated by Arian Lehner (Architektur aktuell). Speaking from the perspective of design practice, he addressed where AI is genuinely useful and where its limits lie.

In the discussion, Josst described how DMAA uses AI across different scales of work: as a text-level sparring partner in early concept development, as a means of building custom tools without dedicated programmers, and increasingly as a simulation instrument for microclimate, noise, and human movement through space. On the question of image generation, he was direct: the results are sometimes difficult to control, and whatever the tool produces still needs to be remodelled and verified before it can inform design decisions.

His clearest argument for AI's potential was in handling large datasets: layering urban data to surface spatial possibilities that human intuition alone would miss. His clearest limit: AI cannot interpret its own errors creatively. That, he noted, remains a distinctly human capacity.