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- **Event Name**: Doctoral School: Writing Retreat: AI & Creativity
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 26 Mar, 2026 at 09:00 am – Fri, 27 Mar, 2026 at 04:30 pm (+00:00)
- **Event Description**: UAL Doctoral School's Spring Writing Retreat turns its attention to AI and Creativity, as a dynamic, evolving field of practices, questions,About this EventWriting Retreat: AI &amp; Creativity – Practices, Possibilities, and ProvocationsUAL Doctoral School's Spring Writing Retreat turns its attention to AI and Creativity, as a dynamic, evolving field of practices, questions, tensions and openings. AI has rapidly entered the spaces where we write, think, imagine and make. For researchers, this creates extended possibilities and profound uncertainties.This Writing Retreat invites researchers, from UAL and beyond, to write with and against these present and emerging conditions: to explore how AI intersects with creative practice, scholarly writing, authorship, experimentation and the processes through which ideas take shape. Across two days, participants will write, rest, reflect and critically play, supported by guided activities, shared dialogue, and dedicated quiet time.Our keynote for the Retreat will be Ray Grewal, award-winning writer who works across film, theatre, TV and radio. Ray is lecturer on Visual &amp; Performance Storytelling at Central Saint Martins and researches AI Integration into Creative Pedagogy. Over two sessions, Ray will work with participants to explore what he’s defining as analytic rumination.Other sessions will be led by PGRs and other researchers from UAL. These may be micro-engagements of 10–20 minutes or longer ones of up to two hours. You will be able to join in person in the Doctoral School or online via Teams.We have been made aware of the London transport strike. This event is held Hybrid, you are more than welcome to switch and join us online or still come into the Doctoral School.  Themes/aims of the retreatExploring how AI intersects with creative, critical and scholarly writingConsidering authorship, originality and collaboration in an AI‑increasing environmentRe-establishing voice and agency within new technological conditionsWorking with uncertainty, experimentation and new forms human-machine collaborationWriting-as-process in contexts of automationAreas of enquiry and explorationCreative or experimental uses of AI in writingCritical or reflective practices for working alongside (or refusing) AI systemsTechniques for scaffolding or structuring work-in-progress using AI toolsMethods for interrogating bias, power and opacity in generative systemsSomatic, analogue and embodied approaches that counterbalance automationPractices that surface shifts in authorship, identity and contributionPrompts for inspirationWhat happens when we co-write with a tool that is not a collaborator but not quite a tool?How is creativity changing, or not changing, in the age of generative and agentic AI?What tensions, openings or disruptions does AI introduce into your practice?How do we sustain imagination, agency and criticality within human-computer writing environments?ScheduleThursday 26 March 20269:00-10:00 Gathering, settling in, welcome9:00-11:00 Shut Up and Write (online)10:00-10:20 Intervention: ChatGPT On Trial, Erika Hughes10:30-11:15 Workshop: (Whose?) Response to AI Movement, Marianna Sfyridi11:40-12:00 Intervention: AI 'writing' (n) is 'not writing’ (vb), Mark Ingham12:30-13:30 Lunch break13:30-16:30 Workshop: GenAI Cannot Dream of Electric Sheep: Analytic Rumination, the Boden Principle and the Limits of GenAI in Creative Writing and Research (Part 1), Ray GrewalFriday 27 March 20269:00-10:00 Gathering, settling in, welcome9:00-16:00 All day drop in: To my dearest, Amelia Crouch10:00-12:00 Workshop: GenAI Cannot Dream of Electric Sheep: Analytic Rumination, the Boden Principle and the Limits of GenAI in Creative Writing and Research (Part 2), Ray Grewal12:10-12:30 Intervention: When the Algorithm Reads You: Embodied Writing Against Emotional AI, Chunyi Shen12:30-13:30 Lunch break13:30-14:30 Workshop: Back to The Future, AI-Coded Apps, and Collaborative Imagination, Dee Matthews14:45-15:05 Intervention: Damien Borowick &amp; Andrea Lioy15:15-16:15 Workshop: Digital Mnemonics: Navigating Trans-national Memory and Ethics in AI-Assisted Research, Andreea Vas
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- **city**: London
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- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: UAL High Holborn
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