AI Art School

Stimulating experimental workshop

The AI Art School:
A Speculative Design Workshop

Royal College of Art
Battersea Campus
Friday 01.03.2024
Time: 9.45am – 4.45pm

65 participants from UK and Ireland HEIs took part in a full-day speculative design workshop led by creative practitioners from the Royal College of Art.

All explored emerging and future challenges related to artificial intelligence in the creative education space through a panel discussion, experimental workshop and roundtable conversation. The panel brought together researchers, artists and experts in AI and the arts, to give a horizon scan on where we are now, and raised several unique provocations for attendees to consider as educators and citizens in the AI space.

In the workshop, attendees experimented actively with digital and analogue tools to bring generative, collective and artificial intelligences into the creative space, and reflected on how they can influence both teaching and outcomes.

The roundtable closed the day as an open forum for discussion on creative AI in education, including reflection on what creative AI futures we want, and how to actively engage with creating them.

It was a truly playful and dynamic day of engaging critically with the future of creative AI and the future of education, useful to educators and policymakers alike.

Left: Drawing by Utkarsh Pathak