[Contribution] Design in the age of human-AI collaboration

Italian furniture company Kartell unveiled a chair named “A.I.” earlier this year. The product drew significant attention because its design was created through a collaboration between renowned designer Philippe Starck and Autodesk’s generative design artificial intelligence. What attracted particular interest was whether a design jointly created by a human and AI could be registered as a design right in a way that explicitly acknowledges co-creation. Under current regulations, not only in Korea