CREATe Spring School 2026 - Remaking Creativity
The third edition of the CREATe Spring School will take place between 29 April to 2 May 2026. The School will address the topic of Remaking Creativity, enquiring about the interplay between human creation and technology, and brining together perspectives of copyright, competition and tech regulation scholars. The School is addressed to doctoral and advanced master students, early career researchers, industry representatives and policy makers with the interest in cultural and creative industries.
Social Sciences Hub
Date: Wednesday 29 April 2026 - Saturday 02 May 2026
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Venue: Advanced Research Centre and Adam Smith Business School
Category: Conferences, Academic events, Student events, Courses
Speaker: tbc
Cultural and creative industries play an important role in modern economies, fostering innovation, creating jobs, and significantly contributing to the economic growth. But their primary role is that of fostering cultural diversity and development of our society, providing an outlet for people’s creativity and expression. Digitalisation and rapid technological progress have created unprecedented opportunities for creators, widening the cultural offer available to the users, who can now partake in creative processes themselves. At the same time, technology has become a crucial intermediary: platforms and their opaque algorithms mediate access to creative goods, acting as gatekeepers, potentially flattening the cultural offering. Digital media creators, searching for new monetization opportunities, dip their toes in advertising, fusing the roles of artists and entrepreneurs more than ever before. The recent advancement in generative AI brings both hope for the automation of menial tasks, freeing creators to do what they love to do, as well as fear that their work will be exploited by big tech and that they will eventually be substituted by machines.
The School aims to provide its participants with a comprehensive understanding of the effects digital technology has on the cultural and creative industries, and how those effects are being addressed by the legislators and policymakers in Europe. The School addresses the current discussions from three perspectives: creativity (copyright), markets (competition) and technology (tech regulation), with each perspective addressed on a separate day.
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