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Publication Restricted The Algorithm of Mourning Subtitle(2025) Orr, Mariia; Riess, Henrik; Graphic Design and Visual Communication (BA); Berlin International University of Applied SciencesAs climate change leads to increasing displacement, loss, and instability, grief is becoming more frequent and multi-layered. At the same time, globalization and digitalization are challenging the relevance and accessibility of traditional mourning practices. This project explores how societies in 2100 might respond to this by outsourcing grief to artifi cial intelligence. It imagines two scenarios: one influenced by American individualism and commercialized self-care, the other by Chinese collectivism and state-guided ritual. Using speculative design, two videos were created to represent these imagined futures. Both centered around an AI-supported memory reconstruction process that occurs during sleep, visualised through a TouchDesigner animation projected onto a pillow—featured in the American setting. The Chinese scenario includes a Joss paper offering ritual, inspired by culturally specifi c insights from a qualitative survey with Chinese participants. The visual content of each video was generated using region-specifi c AI tools: Kling AI for the Chinese scenario, and MidJourney and Runway AI for the American. Together, these prototypes explore how grief might be reshaped through technological mediation and raise critical questions about agency, authenticity, and the future of ritual.Publication Restricted The future of tattooing(2025) Larissa Kelly Marques Moraes; Katharina Lemke, Henrik Riess; Graphic Design and Visual Communication (BA); Berlin International University of Applied SciencesThis thesis explores the evolving relationship between artificial intel- ligence and tattooing, a practice tra- ditionally grounded in human skill, intuition, and cultural symbolism. As AI increasingly shapes creative industries, tattoo artists face new opportunities and challenges in inte- grating technology into their design and execution processes. Through a mixed-methods approach combining surveys, interviews, and speculative design, this study investigates how AI might influence tattooing between 2025 and 2035. The findings reveal cautious open- ness among tattoo artists toward AI tools that assist in the design phase, such as style variation generators and body mapping. However, strong concerns persist regarding author- ship, authenticity, and the emotional dimension of tattooing. The thesis introduces InkFlow, a speculative AI-powered design interface that supports rather than replaces the artist’s role. Word Count 5556.