PAOLO GRANATA
Generative Knowledge focuses on how artificial intelligence, and generative AI in particular, is reshaping the production, transmission, and circulation of knowledge. AI is addressed as a technology that intervenes in study, research, and creative practice, affecting how knowledge, skills, and learning processes are built and shared.
Developed from Paolo Granata‘s book Generative Knowledge, the topic examines the need for new paradigms in education and knowledge exchange at a time when generative tools automate, amplify, and reorganize activities such as synthesis, rewriting, and text production. The focus is placed on forms of collaboration between humans and intelligent systems, on criteria of quality and responsibility, and on the evolving relationship between creativity and emerging technologies.
The broader framework combines perspectives from media studies, aesthetics, and the philosophy of technology, drawing on the tradition of media ecology and on the concept of connective intelligence, while also engaging critical approaches to ongoing cultural transformations.
Speakers Paolo Granata is an Associate Professor of Book and Media Studies at the University of Toronto’s St. Michael’s College and a member of geniaLAB‘s scientific committee. His work explores the intersections of media, digital culture, and knowledge ecosystems, with a focus on the cognitive and perceptual transformations brought about by emerging technologies.
Derrick de Kerckhove is a sociologist and media theorist, and one of Marshall McLuhan‘s closest collaborators. His research has been instrumental in developing the concept of connective intelligence and in examining how digital networks affect mental and social processes.
Andrea Colamedici is a philosopher and publisher, co-founder of the Tlon project and coordinator of geniaLAB‘s scientific committee. His work is dedicated to the dissemination of critical thinking and to contemporary interpretations of cultural change.
