As I Remember Them Sanaa ya Kizalishaji by Bowen Shen

As I Remember Them Sanaa ya Kizalishaji by Bowen Shen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award in Usanifu wa Uzalishaji, Algorithimu, Parametriki na Msaada wa AI Competition Category.

ShabaUsanifu wa Uzalishaji· 2026

As I Remember Them Sanaa ya Kizalishaji

by Bowen Shen

Client: Bowen Shen

Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award Winner in Usanifu wa Uzalishaji Category

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The Design

About As I Remember Them Sanaa ya Kizalishaji

Mfululizo huu wa sanaa ya kizalishaji unaonyesha matukio ya kila siku ya utoto kupitia uundaji wa picha unaosaidiwa na akili bandia. Kazi hii inalenga matukio kama vile mapumziko ya shule, alasiri tulivu za kiangazi nyumbani, na sherehe za Mwaka Mpya, zilizotokana na uzoefu halisi wa maisha katika Kaskazini mwa China. Iliyoundwa kupitia uelekezaji wa maagizo na uhariri wa kuona kwa mkono, mfululizo huu unatanguliza uhalisia huku ukiruhusu kasoro ndogo za kuona zinazoakisi jinsi kumbukumbu inavyohifadhi hisia badala ya undani kamili.

The Recognition

About the Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award

As I Remember Them Sanaa ya Kizalishaji ni mshindi wa Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award, utambuzi wenye heshima kubwa unaotolewa kwa miundo bora inayotofautishwa kwa ubunifu, ustadi na busara. Washindi wa Shaba ni kazi za ufundi mwingi na bunifu ya kushangaza zinazothibitisha uzoefu mpana, mawazo na ustadi wa wabunifu wao. As I Remember Them Sanaa ya Kizalishaji inatarajiwa kuwa kitu kinachothaminiwa sana, kupendwa na kuenziwa, ambacho ni cha kitaalamu na bunifu kwa kiasi kikubwa. Muundo huu ulioshinda Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award unajumuisha mbinu bora katika sanaa, sayansi, usanifu na teknolojia, na ni bora kwa umakini wake kwa undani. As I Remember Them Sanaa ya Kizalishaji hutosheleza mahitaji kwa uzuri, hugusa hamu, huvutia hisia na kuvutia udadisi.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: As I Remember Them is a generative art series that visualizes fragments of memory, emotion, and longing. It is an attempt to reconstruct the past through the lens of imagination.
Dimensions & Packaging: 1856 x 2464px image series
Tags: Generative AI art, Nostalgia, Childhood memories, Northern China, Visual storytelling, MidJourney, Photoshop, Digital art
Production Technology: This series was created with MidJourney, using iterative prompting and reference-based descriptions to shape culturally specific scenes. Outputs were then refined in Photoshop through compositing, retouching, and color adjustments, ensuring the final work aligned with my artistic vision and emotional intent.
Design Challenge: The greatest challenge was translating personal, culturally specific memories into AI-generated images. MidJourney lacked context for the textures of Northern Chinese life, requiring me to break scenes into elements, source references, and iteratively refine prompts. Balancing realism with the quirks of AI output, and deciding when to embrace its distortions, was both the obstacle and the creative breakthrough.
Research: Process documentation: https://bit.ly/49OvkvG

Type of Research: Practice-based creative research.
Research Objectives: To explore how AI can represent personal and culturally specific memories.
Methodology: Iterative visual experimentation and technical study.
Data Collection and Tools: Memory recall, curated reference images, MidJourney style parameters, prompting techniques, Photoshop.
Participants or Experiments: Repeated prompt and image generation cycles.
Results: Increased control over style, detail, and emotional accuracy.
Insights and Impacts: Structured prompting reduces emotional flatness in AI art.
Real Life Effects: Encourages more human-centered AI use in design and visual storytelling.
Inspiration: Bothered by how often GenAI outputs felt soulless, the project set out to render a deeply soulful subject, the emotional landscape of childhood.

I grew up in Northern China, in a hometown changed by time and distance. Through prompting, storytelling, and hands-on editing, I recreated scenes that linger in me: recess, summer solitude, New Year warmth, while embracing GenAI quirks that reflect how memory distorts and softens.
Project Duration: The project was created virtually over the span of one month in January 2025.
Operation Flow: The generative art is experienced through sequential viewing. Each image presents a self-contained moment, allowing viewers to pause, observe, and form personal associations. The series encourages slow viewing rather than interaction through controls, inviting audiences to connect individual scenes to their own memories and emotional experiences.