AI & creative practice
Who Gets to Be Creative When AI Joins the Studio?
A new survey of human–AI co-creativity shifts attention from spectacular outputs to agency, iteration and the conditions of authorship.
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- Dolat Abad Garden pavilion and windcatcher, Yazd, photographed in 2016. Contextual archive image; it does not depict the 2026 AIA programme. Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cropped for layout.
- Inside the windcatcher at Dowlat Abad Garden, Yazd, photographed in 2011. Contextual archive image. Photo: Reibai · CC BY 2.0 · Cropped for layout.
- Smiljan Radić’s Serpentine Pavilion in London, July 2014. Photo: Ardfern · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Cropped for layout.
- The 2014 Serpentine Pavilion, photographed in June 2014. Photo: George Rex · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Cropped for layout.
- Hands-on electronics repair at Repair Lab during Hamburg’s Sommer des Wissens, 2019. Contextual archive image; not a 2026 implementation event. Photo: Alena Zielinski / Redaktion NdW · CC BY 2.0 · Cropped for layout.
- Electronics technicians at work, photographed in 2017. Contextual image of practical repair skill. Photo: 18bit · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cropped for layout with the technician and working hands retained.
- An artisan weaving in Fez, Morocco, photographed on 26 December 2024. Contextual craft image; it does not depict the UNESCO consultation. Photo: Jorge Franganillo · CC BY 2.0 · Cropped for layout.
- A potter at work in Tantadi village, Visakhapatnam district, India, 2013. Contextual archive image. Photo: Adityamadhav83 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Cropped for layout.
- Ceramic production in Rustam Usmanov’s workshop, Rishtan, Uzbekistan, 2018. Contextual archive image; it does not depict the UNESCO consultation. Photo: Enric · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cropped for layout.
- Participants processing material with a CNC machine at LABNL’s FabLAB in Monterrey, 2021. Contextual makerspace photograph; it does not show or evidence AI use. Photo: Ricardo Burnes / LABNL · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cropped for layout.
- A collaborative pavilion design session at LABNL in Monterrey, 18 August 2023. Contextual creative-work photograph; it does not show or evidence AI use. Photo: Melina Ramos / LABNL · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Cropped for layout.
- Participants in a collaborative pavilion design session at LABNL in Monterrey, 18 August 2023. Contextual creative-work photograph; it does not show or evidence AI use. Photo: Melina Ramos / LABNL · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Cropped for layout.
- Microraptor gui specimen BMNHC-Ph000881 at Shanghai Natural History Museum, photographed in 2025. Contextual comparative specimen; this is not Norellraptor barsboldi. Photo: 纳瓦拉的亨利 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cropped for layout.
- Holotype of Microraptor gui at the Paleozoological Museum of China, photographed in 2019. Contextual comparative specimen; this is not Norellraptor barsboldi. Photo: Morosaurus millenii · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cropped for layout.