June 12th 2026 | Workshop

Led by Siddhi Gupta and Adil Boughlala 

Venue: Kromme Nieuwegracht 20, room T.0.05

This workshop brings together creative professionals pursuing PhDs, RMA students, and early-career researchers working with, or aspiring to work with, creative methods to examine how research in creative practice is being shaped today. Through peer exchange, participants will reflect on how methods are developed, adapted, and legitimized within rapidly evolving technological and cultural environments, including the creative and cultural industries. 

The session engages critically with ethical grey zones around authorship, consent, collaboration, and extractive research practices, foregrounding positionality, power, and care as deliberate methodological choices. It further explores how AI can be taken up as a situated and culturally embedded research method, rather than a neutral or purely technical tool. By collectively mapping approaches to collaboration with artists, designers, cultural workers, and creative communities, the workshop aims to strengthen confidence in the legitimacy and rigor of creative research and to foster a shared ‘methods commons’ that participants can carry forward into their doctoral and early-career research trajectories.

Goal: Participants will walk away with a collaborative ‘methods commons’ for working ethically with creative communities, cultural workers, and AI as a situated and creative research method.

Respondents:

Sara Emami, Designer (NL)

Jeroen Deckers, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Designplatform (NL)

Fabian Saavedra Lara, Director of V2_Lab for the Unstable Media.

Moderated by Dr. Lucie Chateau, Assistant Professor in Screen Media, Creative AI Lead, Inclusive AI Lab