Practice / Training & Adoption
Training & Adoption
Lay the foundations, then allow time to apply them. Colleagues’ questions shape the next session.
questions are the syllabusCPDs
Structured by level of experience
Training at KSR combines structured CPDs, practical guidance and resources colleagues can return to afterwards. Sessions are built around different levels of experience, with time to apply the material in between. Day-to-day support and recurring questions shape what gets taught next.
Foundations
Introductory sessions set a shared starting point: how the platform works, what its main settings do, how prompting affects results and where it can support design work. Colleagues leave able to explore useful applications and judge the results themselves.
Workflows
Focused sessions build on those foundations. This CPD grew from recurring questions in the practice, covering stronger image control, repeatable methods, agentic workflows and the best approaches to common visual tasks, so training connects to work colleagues are already doing.
Practice decisions
Presentations for partners and senior colleagues turn research into options for the practice. This one explored visibility through search, website content and AI-assisted discovery. Preparing them means testing ideas, organising evidence and explaining implications clearly enough to support a decision.
Training
Knowledge in the format it will be used
Alongside CPDs and day-to-day support, useful knowledge is shared through short emails, visual guides and reference notes. Topics come from polls, recurring questions and industry developments. Some follow events such as Autodesk University, software releases or major AI updates; others start with the Revit questions colleagues ask most. They become targeted material, including reusable BIM & Beyond notes, so useful answers reach the whole office.
Illustrated software summaries explain what has changed, step-by-step guides take colleagues through a task, and reference notes give something to return to. Architecture is a visual discipline, so diagrams, annotated images and concise instructions make technical information easier to follow. Dedicated AI and Revit Q&A agentic workflows capture day-to-day questions and organise the answers into structured, reusable knowledge.
NotebookLM supports the research, bringing together articles, videos, documentation and notes collected through the week. Structured agentic workflows turn relevant material into draft email summaries and visual guides, reviewed before sharing. The aim is to shorten the distance between finding something useful and putting it into practice.
Learning beyond the session
Training introduces the principles. Lay the best foundations, then allow time to apply them. Support colleagues with real tasks and examples from day-to-day project work, and use their questions to refine the next session and its materials.
Sharing beyond the studio
Publishing, teaching, collaborating
Independent publishing, teaching and collaboration extend this work beyond KSR, with different ways to explain practical methods and exchange ideas with designers, students, colleagues and technology communities.
The Prompted Interior
PublishedSold via Gumroad
The Prompted Interior began as an independent study into AI-assisted interior mood boards. Through testing tools and approaches it became five modular agentic workflows covering concept narratives, visual exploration, material studies, image and motion development, and representation.
The methods were packaged into a guide with prompts and examples, published and sold through Gumroad, turning a personal process into material others can follow, adapt and build on.
Writing it meant making each stage explicit: how to set a direction, use references, review results and carry an idea across different outputs. Iteration and human curation stayed central, with the designer responsible for the final narrative.
It also became a testing ground for how different AI tools work together in one design process. ChatGPT structures briefs and turns design intent into usable prompts; Midjourney handles exploration, material studies and visual development; Gemini supports more controlled image transformation.
Partnerships
Member of the Figma Weave Artist Collective, contributing reusable workflows focused on architectural design and visual communication. It is a chance to test emerging capabilities before public release and feed back. My work was featured on Figma’s blog at the launch of their community tools.
Writing
Substack and social media are where I document and share design and technical AI experiments: tools, prompting methods and visual workflows, alongside concepts, results and lessons, opening up discussion with colleagues and people from other disciplines.
Teaching & talks
Presented the practical applications of AI in architectural practice to interior design students, alongside KSR Partner Guy Ailion. The session covered how AI entered KSR’s visualisation workflows: the opportunities, the adoption and the realities of live design requirements.
Making experience reusable
Explaining a method to someone else reveals its assumptions and missing steps. Guides, talks and articles turn practical experience into material that can be shared, questioned and improved, and what others build in return strengthens the original approach.