Creative intra-actions

Co-creating with generative AI in the age of climate change

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ID21785652
AuthorsRodrigo Ferreira (0000-0003-0789-1937, Rice University, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume50
Issue3
Pages365-378
Publication date2025-07-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLearning Media and Technology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1743-9884 • E-ISSN: 1743-9892
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17439884.2025.2532550
OpenAlexW4412514189
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited64

As educators have begun to investigate new ways to promote student productivity and creativity by ‘co-creating’ with generative AI (GenAI), scholars have simultaneously warned against attributing creativity to GenAI given potential risks that anthropomorphizing AI could result in undermining the value of human creativity or in encouraging current extractive process by AI development companies. In the context of this tension, this article uses a new materialist frame and observations from an original in-class activity to illustrate how the experience of speculatively co-creating with GenaAI – when situated within the social and environmental impacts of human-caused climate change – can be a helpful resource for encouraging students to question historical assumptions of human exceptionalism and to imagine new forms of social and political organization. The article then discusses the implications of human-GenAI co-creativity in terms of social and environmental justice education and contemporary academic discourse on post-anthropocenic and post-capitalist imagination

Climate change · Generative grammar · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Sociology · Computer Science · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence

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