Workshops
(February to June 2025)
Unpacking the Black Boxes: Intelligence, Creativity, Technology
The creative sector lies at the intersection of three fundamental factors for value creation in contemporary societies: intelligence, creativity, and technology. However, these three factors are also major “black boxes” of human culture. The IN&OUT of the BOX project aims to challenge this opacity through conversations with researchers, cultural actors and artists about authorship, creative skills and knowledge, under the impact of AI.
These conversations take place in presence or online, and some can also be accessed as episodes of the Digital Transition Podcast.
- February, 13th
Conversation with Daniel Alves (Associate Professor at NOVA University Lisbon and Deputy Vice-Dean for Technological Infrastructures and Digital Transition)
- February, 24th
Conversation with Benjamin Weil (Director of CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation)
(Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5fsHZHJAAs )
- March, 21st
Webinar: “Artificial Intelligence: Impacts on Citizenship and Work”, conducted by António Moniz and Nuno Boavida (Researchers at CICS.NOVA – Observatory for Technological Assessment)
- March, 28th
Conversation with Robert Clowes (Researcher and Invited Auxiliary Professor at NOVA University Lisbon, Director of the Lisbon Mind, Cognition & Knowledge Group)
(Podcast: coming soon)
- April, 23rd
Webinar: “Skills in the European Digital Transition,” conducted by Cristina Ponte (Director of the Institute of Communication at NOVA University Lisbon) and Sónia Alves (K8 – Institute for Strategic Aesthetics, Germany).
https://www.icnova.fcsh.unl.pt/2-webinar-inout-of-the-box-icnova/
Experimental workshop
(2025 to 2026)
Experimental Workshop 1 (October 2025)
Exploring the Creative Ecosystem: Agency, Skills and Value Creation
What should we understand by creative skills under the increasing disruption of AI generative technologies? How do these technologies impact creative professions, work organization, and business culture in CCIs?
This workshop focuses on the need to shape a new creative ecosystem and to examine the demands for upskilling and reskilling within a redefinition of what skills are, how they are formed and what it means to learn in a time of socio-technical disruption.
The program will benefit from a partnership with the Observatory for Technology Assessment [https://sites.fct.unl.pt/observatorio-avaliacao-tecnologia] of CICS.NOVA and the European Cyanotypes Project[https://cyanotypes.website/]
Registration: coming soon
Experimental Workshop 2 (January 2026)
Exploring Creativity, AI Tools and Data
A hands-on workshop to test generative AI systems, explore human-machine agencies, reshape creative practices, and anticipate future skills in partnership with technology in fields such as writing, image and sound production, interface design, and digital arts. The workshop welcomes art and media students as well as artists and professionals across the CCI sector.
This workshop is a partnership between ICNOVA (Institute of Communication of NOVA University of Lisbon), FBAUL (Fine Art School, University of Lisbon) and HBK Saar (Bildenden Künste Saar).
Registration: coming soon
