Workshops
Experimental Workshop
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 of CICS.NOVA and the European Cyanotypes Project.
Experimental Workshop 2 (February-March 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).
Speculative Workshop
Conversation with Daniel Alves (Associate Professor at NOVA University Lisbon and Deputy Vice-Dean for Technological Infrastructures and Digital Transition).
Watch the podcast episode.
Conversation with Benjamin Weil (Director of CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation).
Watch the podcast episode.
Webinar: “Artificial Intelligence: Impacts on Citizenship and Work”, conducted by António Moniz and Nuno Boavida (Researchers at CICS.NOVA – Observatory for Technological Assessment).
Conversation with Robert Clowes (Researcher and Invited Auxiliary Professor at NOVA University Lisbon, Director of the Lisbon Mind, Cognition & Knowledge Group).
Watch the podcast episode.
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).
Research workshop “Art and the Politics of Spectatorship: from digital divide to digital ecology”, on the thought and work of the art theorist and historian Claire Bishop. The last session included an interview with the author.
Watch the podcast episode.
First roundatble of the “Unpacking the Black Boxes” cycle. Included a conversation, led by Luísa Ribas (professor at FBAUL) with the artist João Pedro Amorim.
Interview with Soenke Zehle (Professor at Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar and Co-Director of the K8 Institut für strategische Ästhetik). Published as an interview in the online journal Interact.
Second roundatble of the “Unpacking the Black Boxes” cycle. Included a conversation, led by Maria Teresa Cruz, with Rui Torres (ICNOVA / UFP), António Branco (FCUL), and Golgona Anghel (NOVA FCSH).
Third roundatble of the “Unpacking the Black Boxes” cycle. Included a conversation, led by Nuno Crespo (Director of UCP School of Arts), with the artists Catarina Braga and Igor Jesus.
Fourth roundatble of the “Unpacking the Black Boxes” cycle. Included a conversation, with Nuno Bernardo (CEO of beActive Entertainment).
Conversation with Bernhard Siegert (Media theorist and Gerd Bucerius Professor at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar).
Will be published as a forthcoming podcast episode.
