Posthuman Pedagogies: Mindful Creativity in the Age of AI

Organised by LASALLE Learning, Teaching and Research

The integration of generative AI in the creative arts marks a critical inflexion point in how knowledge, authorship and imagination are produced and valued. Within tertiary arts education, this shift challenges long-standing assumptions about creative autonomy and the role of the human artist.

This symposium explores issues surrounding posthuman creativity through a hybrid lens that foregrounds the technological agency of AI systems and the embodied awareness of human creators in artistic practice.

It investigates how new forms of artistic intelligence might emerge from collaborative entanglements between human intuition, machine learning and mindful self-awareness. It calls attention to the risks of cognitive overload and detachment that can accompany these entanglements. It examines how mindfulness, mental rest and embodied reflection can act as vital counterweights—enabling sustainable and grounded creative practices within AI-enhanced learning environments.

At the heart of this symposium lies a generative question: What forms of creativity emerge when human and non-human intelligences co-produce knowledge—and how can arts education cultivate the conditions for this co-production without eroding the embodied, mindful dimensions of artistic practice?

We approach this question through the dual commitment to:

• Technological agency—understanding AI as an active participant in the creative process, shaping aesthetics, authorship and innovation.
• Embodied awareness—valuing slowness, rest, reflection and felt experience as essential components of sustainable artistic practice.

This dual commitment holds tension as productive: the machinic and the mindful, the accelerated and the slow, the disembodied and the grounded. It contests that posthuman creativity lives in the recalibration of what it means to create with others, both human and non-human. 

These themes will be explored through keynotes, practice-led panels, short presentations and guided reflective interludes designed to model mindful methodologies. Participants will engage with scholars, academics, creative practitioners, and educators to discuss how tertiary arts institutions can prepare students for these complex realities.

The symposium targets tertiary arts educators, curriculum developers, creative practitioners, postgraduate students and researchers working at the intersection of creativity, AI, posthuman theory, and mental well-being. It also contributes to LTR’s strategic goals around future-oriented pedagogies, sustainability of practice, and the integration of emerging technologies in arts education.

More information to be announced.