The Unintended Edit

The Unintended Edit

Monash University Library is pleased to showcase The Unintended Edit, an exploration of how AI can breathe new, often unpredictable life into existing design works, showing the evolution to take old works to reinterpret, evolve and distort original intentions.

About the project

Presented as part of Melbourne Design Week 2026, The Unintended Edit brings together eleven staff from Monash Architecture, Design and Arts (MADA) to examine how AI can unsettle creative control and reshape design outcomes.

Each designer has revisited a previous project using AI-driven tools to reinterpret, extend and, at times, disrupt their original intentions. These reworked pieces reveal a productive tension between human agency and computational intervention, highlighting the role of chance, iteration and collaboration in contemporary design practice.

Contributing artists: Axel Munoz Rivas, Chang Huang, Dave Trickey, Giosuè Prochilo, Indae Hwang, Jeff Janet, Jiyoon Lee, Mariano Araiza Kelly, Nao Hayakawa, Robin Hely, Sam Berkoh.

This video is currently displaying on big screens at Caulfield, Hargrave-Andrew, and Matheson Libraries.