Posthuman Pedagogies: Mindful Creativity in the Age of AI

Organised by LASALLE Learning, Teaching and Research

The integration of generative AI into the creative arts marks a pivotal moment in how knowledge, authorship and imagination are produced and valued. Within tertiary arts education, this transformation challenges long-standing assumptions about creative autonomy and the role of the human artist. As AI systems gain agency in shaping artistic outcomes, educators and practitioners are compelled to re-examine what it means to teach, learn and create in a technologically mediated world.

This symposium explores the evolving terrain of posthuman pedagogies through a hybrid lens that highlights both the technological agency of AI systems and the embodied awareness of human creators. It investigates how new learning and teaching practices might emerge through the entanglement of human intuition, machine learning and mindful self-awareness. At the same time, it acknowledges the risks of cognitive overload and detachment that may accompany these collaborations, emphasising mindfulness, rest and reflection as essential counterbalances for sustaining creative and pedagogical well-being.

At its core, the symposium poses a generative question: What forms of learning and creativity arise when human and non-human intelligences co-produce knowledge, and how can arts education cultivate these conditions without losing touch with the embodied, mindful dimensions of practice? In response, the programme embraces a dual commitment to technological agency—understanding AI as an active participant in shaping aesthetics, authorship, and innovation—and embodied awareness—valuing slowness, reflection and felt experience as essential components of sustainable educational and artistic practices.

The interplay between the machinic and the mindful, the accelerated and the slow, the disembodied and the grounded forms a productive tension. The symposium asserts that posthuman pedagogies flourish within this dynamic balance, redefining what it means to learn and create with others—both human and non-human.

More information to be announced.