AI & Traditional Workflows in Comparison
Online Workshop by Simone Micheli Architectural Hero
The design world is changing rapidly. Clients expect speed. Markets demand relevance. AI is already part of real design workflows. Online Workshop · March 16–18, 2026
Support Ideation & Visualization
How AI tools can support ideation, visualization, automation, and communication across design disciplines.
Preserve Traditional Value
How traditional design workflows still hold irreplaceable value—and where they remain essential.
Integrate Intelligently
How to compare, combine, and intelligently integrate both approaches for stronger outcomes.
Empowering designers
to integrate AI tools
without losing human creativity. 
Participants engage with a live project-based learning format rather than passive listening.
The workshop structure includes inputs from the studio team, partner companies, and media professionals.
A distinctive opportunity to create work with relevance to an international design context.
Selected participants may access further exposure opportunities linked to the Simone Micheli Architectural Hero ecosystem.
Your success 
is our mission
AI & Traditional Workflows in Comparison
Online via Zoom — from Milan & Florence studios
Simone Micheli Architectural Hero
9 hours (3 days × 3 hours) + revision sessions
16, 17, 18 March 2026
01:00 PM UAE, 09:00 AM UK, 10:00 AM Italy, 02:30 PM India
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- 2
- 3
- 4
- Lesson 1 (3 hours)
Introduction to the Studio & Project Theme
Presentation of the studio's case history
Introduction to the final project brief
Documentary: Simone Micheli Design Vision | 60 years of life
- Lesson 2 (3 hours)
Client, Partner & AI Tools Session
Graphic, visual design, and communication insights
by Roberta Colla
Inputs from the partner company
AI tools in design — architecture and interior design
Case studies and hands-on exploration of platforms
- Lesson 3 (3 hours)
Media, Press & Public Speaking
Learning how to connect with journalists and
media
Press communication
Public speaking for designers
- Additional
Revision Sessions & Final Presentation
Two guided revision sessions with the team
— Presentation of developed outputs before the academic team
Building conceptual clarity and practical confidence.
Understand the evolving role of AI in architecture and interior design, and how studios are already using it in real projects.
Gain exposure to platforms such as Midjourney, Fooocus AI, Veras, Runway, HeyGen, Sora, Looka, and others introduced during the workshop.
Learn how conventional methods compare with AI-supported processes, and where each has its strengths, limitations, and value.
Develop stronger prompt-thinking abilities to generate more meaningful, usable, and design-relevant outputs.
Discover how design ideas can be articulated more effectively to clients, companies, collaborators, and audiences.
Sessions on press communication, public speaking, and building stronger connections with media.
What you will take away.
Better understand where AI fits into real design practice
Use selected AI tools for ideation and visual exploration
Compare AI-assisted and traditional methods more critically
Structure design responses more efficiently
Communicate projects more persuasively
Gain exposure to an international, media-aware design process.
It does not teach software in isolation; it teaches design relevance.
This workshop places AI inside the larger design ecosystem—concept, communication, client relevance, media visibility, and professional presentation. Participants gain exposure not only to technology, but to a broader design culture shaped by a globally recognised practice and its collaborators.
Who should attend.
This workshop is especially relevant for designers, students, and creative professionals who want to understand how design intelligence and artificial intelligence can work together.
- Architecture students
- Interior design students
- Young architects and interior designers
- Product and graphic design learners
- Creative professionals interested in AI-enhanced workflows
- Design educators and practitioners
Current Eligibility - Cindrebay students in the final years
- BSc Interior Design
- BDes Programmes
- From all branches of Cindrebay School of Design in India and overseas locations.