Creative AI Exploration and Imagination: Innovative Methods for Alternative Digital Futures
Category: Event
The workshop will explore and test transfer methods for playful and artistic engagement (arts- based methods and future methods) with AI and digital transformation. Participants will discuss the theoretical foundations of these methodologies, address practical challenges in their application and transfer, and examine the role of arts-based and future methods in fostering civil society participation, enabling citizens to critically engage with the everyday impacts of AI and envision alternative uses, frameworks, and regulations for a citizen- centered digital transformation. Practical aspects of applying arts-based and future methods in the AI context should be illuminated through collaboration with local partners. Stakeholders such as citizens, media education initiatives, and NGOs critical of digitalization are invited to join the conversation and exploration. The workshop also aims to address ethical considerations in applying these methods, documenting how such approaches influence the dynamics between researchers and participants. We welcome contributions from a broad range of disciplines and sectors involving researchers and academics, designers, artists and creative practitioners, community organizers and activists, technologists and developers, as well as policy advocates and educators. We invite arts-based and future methods contributions that: • Demonstrate innovative citizen-led AI applications or projects. • Showcase participatory methods for engaging diverse communities with AI. • Explore alternative narratives and imaginaries of digital futures. • Examine the role of creativity in developing ethical and inclusive AI. • Provide critical reflections on challenges and lessons learned. The Show-and-Tell format is designed to encourage interaction and dialogue. Contributors will present their work in interactive sessions and engage directly with participants through live demonstrations, creative storytelling, or multimedia presentations.
Initiator(s):
University of Leipzig
Deadline: 31.03.2025
Event: Creative AI Exploration and Imagination: Innovative Methods for Alternative Digital Futures
Post created by: Lymor Wolf Goldstein