Ctrl + Alt + Crit: re-imagining assessment and feedback with Generative AI in Art, Design and Creative disciplines.

This case study addresses the profound challenges and opportunities presented by the rapid integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) within higher education assessment practices. Focusing on Art, Design, and Creative (ADC) disciplines, the paper identifies three critical pedagogical tensions intensified by GenAI.
To move beyond defensive institutional stances centred in surveillance and detection, O'Boyle introduces Ctrl + Alt + Crit. This developmental framework reasserts structural control through intentional assessment design (Ctrl), establishes nuanced configurations for human-AI collaboration (Alt), and positions the critical evaluation of AI systems as an examinable academic function.
This case study serves as a conceptual provocation for the higher education sector. It argues that institutions must fundamentally redesign curricula to cultivate and measure distinctively human capabilities such as judgement, authorship, and ethical stance, within an increasingly algorithmic world.