Gerald Sastra
Graduate Student
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Gerald Sastra’s Panel
AI, Creativity, and Design
As generative AI access has become ubiquitous, LLMs have already had a substantial impact on the ways that people can produce creative work. In this panel session, we’ll discuss the different roles that LLMs can play in creative work, including roles in brainstorming and editing. We’ll also discuss the potential dangers of generative AI’s increased role in creative processes and concerns about AI’s impact on people’s critical thinking skills and overall work quality. Our panelists in this session bring experience and expertise from a variety of areas to this discussion.
About Gerald Sastra
Gerald Sastra is a designer who is currently a graduate student in Interior Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he concentrates in Exhibition and Narrative Environments. His work explores how emerging technologies, including AI, intersect with creativity, learning, and spatial storytelling, particularly within educational and cultural contexts.
With a foundation in Graphic Design from the University of Houston and professional experience in experience design, Gerald approaches AI not as a replacement for creative authorship, but as a tool that reshapes how designers think, iterate, and learn. His research and hands-on work investigate investigate how AI can support design thinking, expand modes of inquiry, and challenge traditional boundaries between making, teaching, and reflection.
Gerald has presented his work at national and international design forums. Through both academic and professional practice, he is interested in how designers can critically and ethically engage AI to enhance creativity while keeping human values, intuition, and cultural context at the center of the design process.