AANT took part in the conference “AI4CREA – Innovation and Creativity: New Perspectives with AI,” held on Friday, March 20, in the Conference Hall of Universitas Mercatorum. Representing the Academy was Gianna Angelini, AANT’s Scientific Director, who spoke in the session devoted to the role of higher education institutions in the relationship between artificial intelligence, innovation, and creativity.
Conceived as an opportunity to reflect on how AI is transforming the way we imagine, design, and create content, products, and services, the conference focused on a topic that is now crucial for the worlds of education, design, communication, and the cultural and creative industries.
Gianna Angelini took part in Session II, “Innovation and Creativity in Higher Education Institutions,” alongside Riccardo Balbo, Academic Director of the IED Group; Fabrizio Maturo, Dean of the Faculty of Technological Sciences and Innovation at Universitas Mercatorum; and Barbara Martini, Director of the Department of Engineering and Sciences, in a session chaired by Giuseppe Carci. The structure of the event, opened by remarks from Rector Giovanni Cannata and concluded by Antonio Felice Uricchio, President of ANVUR, gave the meeting a particularly significant scientific and institutional profile.
AANT’s presence at AI4CREA forms part of a coherent path that the Academy has long been pursuing around the relationship between AI, education, and critical thinking. In the Academy’s most recent public engagements, the Scientific Director has in fact reaffirmed the importance of integrating artificial intelligence into educational pathways without giving up the centrality of interpretation, design culture, and theoretical tools. These are all themes at the core of geniaLAB, AANT’s research hub.
For this reason as well, participation in AI4CREA marks an important step in strengthening AANT’s position within the contemporary debate on creativity, technology, and higher education.