Decolonising AI

Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) at The University of Edinburgh, brings together creative practices that shape the world around us.

Edinburgh College of Art

Art and craft, Music, Discussion/talk, Workshop

School of Informatics

Institute for Design Informatics

In the Institute for Design Informatics, we fuse design and creative methodologies with data, data science and data-driven technologies.

Join researchers, artists and community members for a lively exploration of AI, bias, and creativity. There will be two hands-on roundtable workshops on AI bias in visual and language models, inviting you to collaborate and co-design with language and visual AI tools, creating a participatory artwork. Co-create a sonic performance that challenges Western norms of sound and music making—using AI music generators and sound-processing tools to reveal the status quo and probe the limits of AI. You’ll leave with fresh skills for using AI tools in your own work; a greater awareness of two-way AI and human bias; new multicultural approaches to collaboration; and experience analysing sound patterns and testing the boundaries between sound, music, and genre. This is a community event bridging arts, humanities, and STEM, open to both curious beginners and seasoned practitioners. This event is part of the Being Human Festival, the UK’s national festival of the humanities, taking place 6 - 15 November 2025. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, with generous support from Research England, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. For further information please see beinghumanfestival.org.

Facilitator: Shama RahmanDate: Thurs 13 Nov 2025Time: 14:00-16:00 | Free/TicketedLocation: School of InformaticsRegistration for this workshop is also welcome if preferred; participants with tickets are guaranteed entry and drop-in will be on a first come first served basis if capacity is full.

If you have any enquiries about this event, please contact srahman@ed.ac.ukImage credit: Courtesy of Shama Rahman

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