Joe Doucet: Transmissions

What happens to creativity in a world where AI can create?

Transmissions begins with this question and answers it through experience. Developed through an ongoing collaboration between designer Joe Doucet and artificial intelligence, the project explores a new model of creativity—one that is neither human nor machine, but something shared.

At its core is a system of listening instruments. Speakers, sculptural diffusers, and acoustic seating are designed as a single, unified environment. Each element plays a role in shaping how sound moves through space and how it is ultimately perceived. The goal is not simply to improve sound quality, but to transform listening itself.

Central to the work is the idea of somatic listening. Sound is not treated as something that exists only in the ears, but as something that can be felt throughout the body. Low frequencies create pressure and presence. Reflections are softened and redirected through sculptural, parabolic diffusers. Even the seating is designed to absorb and shape sound, positioning the listener within a carefully constructed acoustic field.

The result is an environment where sound is no longer fixed or directional. It expands, wraps, and evolves, dissolving the boundaries between speaker, space, and listener. Music becomes immersive, physical, and deeply human.

At the same time, Transmissions functions as a proof of concept. It demonstrates that when human intuition and AI capability are brought together, the outcome is not a compromise, but an expansion. Each contributes something the other cannot. Together, they create something neither could achieve alone.

Transmissions invites visitors to step inside this collaboration and consider a broader question: if this is what can happen when we create together, what might the future of creativity become?e this collaboration and consider a broader question: if this is what can happen when we create together, what might the future of creativity become?