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Aliberk Senbas is a designer working across fashion, architecture, and AI, driven by curiosity about meaning in form and system. Trained at SCI-Arc and Princeton, he blends computational design with fashion\u2019s narrative power. His project Formzee explores AI as a creative partner, pushing design boundaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Q1. Congratulations on winning the MUSE Design Awards! Can you introduce yourself and share about what inspired you to pursue design as a career?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you! I\u2019m Aliberk Senbas, a designer working across fashion, architecture, and artificial intelligence. My design journey has always been driven by curiosity\u2014exploring how we build meaning through form, image, and system. I studied architecture at SCI-Arc and Princeton, where I developed a passion for computational design and speculative thinking. Over time, I grew increasingly interested in fashion as a medium intimately connected to identity, transformation, and narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What inspires me most is the chance to explore the unknown\u2014especially by treating design as a conversation between human and non-human intelligence. This curiosity led to Formzee, a research project that asks what it means to design with AI not merely as a tool, but as a generative counterpart.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Q2. What does being recognized in the MUSE Design Awards mean to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being recognized by the MUSE Design Awards is incredibly meaningful. It affirms that experimental, cross-disciplinary work has a place in global design discourse. It shows that ideas once considered fringe\u2014like AI as a co-author in the creative process\u2014are now being taken seriously in mainstream conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me, it\u2019s also a moment of reflection and encouragement. It reinforces the value of research-led, speculative practice and motivates me to keep challenging boundaries\u2014between media, disciplines, and intelligences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q3. How has this achievement impacted your career, team, or agency, and what opportunities has it brought so far?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This recognition has significantly expanded the reach of my design research. It has sparked meaningful dialogue with curators, institutions, and fellow researchers exploring the intersections of art, technology, and fashion. For a project like Formzee\u2014rooted in experimentation and critical inquiry\u2014this kind of visibility is incredibly valuable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although I work independently, the award has opened up new opportunities for collaboration and invitations to share the research more broadly. It\u2019s encouraged me to keep exploring how we might reshape creative authorship through human\u2013AI collaboration\u2014without needing to frame the work as commercial or product-driven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q4. What role does experimentation play in your creative process? Can you share an example?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experimentation is absolutely central to my creative process\u2014it\u2019s where the work begins. I treat design less as problem-solving and more as inquiry: a way to test questions about perception, material, and intelligence. Especially in a research project like Formzee, experimentation isn\u2019t just a phase\u2014it\u2019s the method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One example is how I train custom AI models on curated datasets that blend historical costume, speculative fashion, architecture, and organic forms. These models don\u2019t generate final products\u2014they generate starting points, provocations. I then intervene manually, digitally, and sometimes physically, layering interpretations until the form begins to feel like something new. That process often reveals silhouettes or narrative potentials I could never have planned in advance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To me, experimentation isn\u2019t about novelty for its own sake\u2014it\u2019s about discovering unfamiliar logics, and making space for surprise, ambiguity, and even failure within the design process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Q5. What’s the most unusual source of inspiration you’ve ever drawn from for a project?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the most unusual sources of inspiration I\u2019ve explored is ancient timekeeping systems\u2014like lunar calendars and shadow clocks. I became fascinated by how different civilizations encoded their perception of time into form, space, and ritual. That led me to ask: What would fashion look like if it were designed around ecological or planetary rhythms instead of commercial cycles?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That idea evolved into a series of AI-generated garments visualizing alternative temporal logics\u2014shapes that expand, contract, or shift symbolically to reflect time passing in non-linear ways. It was less about clothing as utility and more about proposing a new relationship between the body, the environment, and the invisible structures we live by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inspiration often comes from outside expected domains\u2014science, mythology, failed prototypes\u2014and becomes most valuable when it pushes the work in unexpected directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Formzee: Designing Intelligence<\/a><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

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Explore the journey of Yujin Cao & Liwei Shen<\/a>, the Silver Winners of the 2025 MUSE Design Awards. They blend architecture, urban design, and landscape to challenge conventions and champion ecological justice, weaving art and social equity into transformative urbanism.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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