Hybrid spaces and AI: a new creative and ethical challenge

Hybrid spaces generate daily knowledge that generalist AI models never encounter: place management practices, impact assessments, project archives. Much of it remains scattered in documents written carefully for few readers. The idea of a webinar starts from the possibility that such knowledge could become a resource serving regenerated spaces and their territories. To get there, the sector must grapple with questions such as governance, since adopting AI commits the whole organisation rather than individual initiative; delegation, deciding what work suits a system versus what stays with people; and data care, covering collection, storage, and verification. 

Drawing on Rigenerativa, a training path led by Sineglossa with Lo Stato dei Luoghi, involving 800 members across eight campuses, the talk presents a tool co-designed with thirty network organisations that drafts projects and social reports from their own documents, discloses its sources, and opens onto shared practices and indicators. Cultural spaces can thus decide what form their own AI takes, turning knowledge usually kept implicit by space managers into value for daily work and, at scale, for public policy. What emerges is an AI that speaks the language of hybrid spaces, a model other third-sector actors can adapt to their own.

The webinar will focus on the process which led to the creation of the AI tool – the decisions that had to be made before development started, what had to be true about data and processes, what turned out harder than expected, etc. There will be also a demo of what has been achieved until now. The final aim is also to understand with TEH members the possible future use of such tool.

When: 20 November 14.30–17 CET
With: Jurga Kupstyte and Kaspars Kondratjuks (TEH Digital Hub, Federico Bomba (Sineglossa), Emmanuele Curti (Lo Stato dei Luoghi) and TEH Coordination Office
Deadline for registration: 19 November