Author: Christopher Rowell
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#9. AI and Copyright Issues in Creative Practice
As AI tools become more common in creative workflows, they also raise important ethical and legal questions. Artists, designers, and educators are increasingly debating issues such as authorship, copyright, ownership, and the sources of the data used to train AI systems. For tutors working in creative arts education, these discussions provide an opportunity to help…
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UAL AI Network 20.06.26: Experimentation, Ethics and Critical Thinking in the Age of AI
Watch the recording. The latest UAL AI Network meeting brought together colleagues from across the university to explore how artificial intelligence is being integrated into teaching, creative practice and research. Rather than focusing on AI as a technological solution, the discussion centred on a more important question: how can we help students and staff engage…
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Case Study: Decolonising AI in Fashion Education
Summary: This case study explores how a six‑week LCF teaching unit empowered fashion students to critically interrogate artificial intelligence through a decolonising lens, fostering agency, ethical awareness, and creative confidence. Watch the recording of Kate and Ami talking about their case study. Introduction In response to growing student anxieties around AI image-making and its implications…
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Making chatbots to help investigate GenAI
Part of my role as Research and Innovation Coordinator for UAL Online involves grappling with the pedagogical implications of generative AI. As well as engaging with conventional forms of research into GenAI, I have been using practice-led research methods to help think through the intricacies and affordances of these emerging technologies. Building on ideas and…
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eBook: AI and Art & Design Education
Resource Overview This book emerges from the AI in Art and Design Education Practice Sharing Day, held on 18 June 2025. The event brought together students, educators, and practitioners across art schools to explore, implement, and critically reflect on the use of generative AI in creative education. Thirteen tutors from institutions across the UK shared…
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eBook: Student AI Practice in Creative Education
Resource Overview This collection brings together chapters developed from presentations delivered at the AI Student Practice Sharing Day on 20 April 2026, organised by University of the Arts London (UAL) in collaboration with the Council for Higher Education in Art and Design (CHEAD). The event provided a platform for students to critically and creatively engage…
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AI Addiction – Summary of Reading Group discussion
On the 29th May we had the second UAL AI Reading Group where we discussed the article, Artificial intelligence addiction: Exploring the emerging phenomenon of addiction in the AI age by Liqaa Habeb Al-Obaydi and Marcel Pikhart. We started with a short summary of the article by Mark Robinson, Learning Technologist at LCF. Mark’s introduction to the paper…