AANT is proud to announce that geniaLAB has been selected as one of the official Pilots of the European project CYANOTYPES – Strategic Skills for Creative Futures.
With this recognition, geniaLAB becomes part of an international network of institutions engaged in testing new approaches to education, research, and innovation in the cultural and creative sectors, contributing to the definition of future strategic competences.
CYANOTYPES is a project funded by the European Union under the Erasmus+ programme, involving over twenty partners including universities, training institutions, cultural and creative industries, innovation hubs, and European networks. Its goal is to develop a future-oriented competence ecosystem capable of responding to the challenges posed by the digital, green, and social transitions currently shaping the cultural sector as a whole.
What is geniaLAB. geniaLAB – short for Generative Intelligence, Artificial Life and Arts Laboratory – is AANT’s permanent hub for research and experimentation. It is an interdisciplinary lab dedicated to the critical and creative exploration of artificial intelligence, cognitive technologies, and their implications in art, design, culture, and society.
The lab’s statute defines an ambitious mission: not only to develop research and innovation projects, but also to rethink models of learning, knowledge production, and dissemination in the age of generative intelligence. GenIALab promotes a hybrid, embodied, and relational approach, combining speculative practices, design methodologies, and critical reflection.
What It Means to Be a CYANOTYPES Pilot. In the CYANOTYPES project, a Pilot is not just a teaching lab or a series of workshops—it is a strategic learning infrastructure that experiments with, tests, and adapts training approaches on a real-world scale.
Each Pilot is invited to integrate the CYANOTYPES Competence Framework—a set of 25 competences grouped into five “agency” clusters—into its research, education, or cultural production activities.
The Pilots are the operational core of CYANOTYPES: they are the spaces where theory meets practice, and where alternative models of learning, collaboration, and transdisciplinary design are tested.
geniaLAB’s Contribution to the Project. As a CYANOTYPES Pilot, GenIALab will activate a series of interlinked actions, including:
- educational experiments on AI and generative design
- speculative labs exploring future scenarios and prompt thinking methodologies
- co-creation projects involving artists, researchers, and students
- mapping activities of emerging competences
- public events for dissemination and critical dialogue
All activities will be guided by the principles of triple-loop learning and will be evaluated in relation to their contribution to the CYANOTYPES Competence Framework—especially in the areas of regenerative agency, critical engagement with digital technologies, and the valorisation of ideas and ethical perspectives.
A European Challenge, A Local Responsibility. Joining CYANOTYPES as a Pilot means taking on a dual responsibility: contributing to the design of future competences for the entire European creative ecosystem, and at the same time generating value for the local community of reference—students, educators, professionals, industrial and cultural partners.
geniaLAB is committed to meeting this challenge through research rigour, project creativity, and an ethics of collaboration.