How Are Ideas Born? Creativity in Art and Science in the Age of AI

Friday 11 Dec 2026, 09:00 → 17:30 Europe/Copenhagen

Judit Prat Marti (UPC, Barcelona)

A symposium on creativity from art and science perspectives, focusing on how transdisciplinary practices can enhance creativity and also on how we can enhance creativity instead of displacing it in the age of AI.

09:00 → 09:15 Welcome and introduction

09:15 → 10:30 How did I get my best idea? Creative journeys across disciplines

• Vítor Cardoso + Ana Sousa on the "Assim Nasce uma Ideia” project (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)
• Lightning talks from researchers on how they got their best idea

Chaired by Bente Klarlund Pedersen (Institut for Klinisk Medicin, University of Copenhagen)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Breaking boundaries: How transdisciplinary work can enhance creativity

Talks by speakers whose careers cross disciplinary lines between art and science, or between different fields within science, talking about how transdisciplinary work can enhance creativity:

• Jennifer Roberts (Harvard University, Department of History of Art and Architecture)
• Andreas Roepstorff (Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University)

Chaired by Monica Bello, Director of Platform Dalí.

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch and networking

14:00 → 15:15 The creative process in the age of AI

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 → 16:45 Looking ahead: how will research be done in ten years? (A panel discussion)

With some of the speakers in previous sessions and Morten Axel Pedersen (Deputy Vice-Rector for AI, University of Copenhagen).

16:45 → 17:00 Closing remarks by organizers

17:00 → 17:30 Farewell and self-organized social events