The Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL) is hosting generative artificial intelligence (AI) events at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Throughout the AI Horizon series at CITL faculty and staff will have the opportunity to participate in hands-on workshops, guest talks, and conversations on how GenAI impacts the future of education and beyond. Make sure you subscribe to our monthly AI Horizons newsletter. 

AI-Enabled Worldbuilding as Iterative Mental Model

Jun 24, 2026   2:00 - 3:00 pm  
Armory room 182 and online via Zoom
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Webinar
Sponsor
The Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning
Speaker
Michael Curtin
Contact
Jim Wentworth
E-Mail
jwentwor@illinois.edu
Phone
217-244-2492
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Michael Curtin

Adjunct Faculty - Informatics / Game Studies and Design, University of Illinois at Urbana / Champaign 

For three years I’ve taught a class with a unique dependency; each semester I need a detailed plan for a video game - a narrative, locations, characters - and a gameplay loop that ties it all together. AI helps to meet this need, but rather than using it to generate content, I leverage it as a framework for quickly externalizing, organizing and iterating ideas - all before any real creative labor takes place.

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