​Creative Architecture: Designing the Conditions for Meaningful Inquiry in the Age of AI

​What if AI literacy is not just about learning how to use AI, but learning how to see and redesign the conditions that shape what AI makes possible?

​Join us for our 8th AI in Education meetup, featuring Dr. Rachel Horst (Lecturer and Academic Advisor, UBC Master of Educational Technology).

​In this talk and discussion, we will explore creative architecture as a way to think more carefully about how meaning is made across both human and AI systems.

​Creative architecture looks at the conditions that shape a piece of work: the materials it draws from, the values it carries, the constraints it works within, the perspectives it includes, and the judgments that guide it.

​AI makes this conversation urgent because it can produce polished, plausible work while hiding the architecture behind that work. Rather than focusing only on better prompts or better outputs, this session asks how educators and students might design the conditions for meaningful inquiry, creativity, and judgment. Inviting students to participate in designing and articulating these conditions can help them see that meaning, and AI outputs, are not neutral. They are shaped by systems, choices, constraints, values, and omissions.

​This offers a deeper understanding of AI literacy: not simply learning how to use AI tools, but learning how systems are created, how they can be created differently, and how they shape what can be thought, said, made, and valued.

​Come. Listen. Question. Imagine.

​Schedule
6:30: Doors open
7:00: We start (right on time!)
8:00: Event wraps up; mingling & conversation
8:30: Doors close

​Ring the doorbell at Ethọ́s Lab for entry.

​Who belongs

​Educators (K–12 & post-sec), students, parents/caregivers, youth-program leads, mentors, industry folks ready to support (not recruit), researchers, artists, designers, and all curious neighbours welcome.

​Big love to Ethọ́s Lab

​Ethọ́s Lab is a youth‑powered innovation studio centring Black futures and community imagination. Their space, leadership, and care make ED + AI possible.... thank you for holding the centre and keeping the vibe welcoming and bold.

​With Support From BC + AI Ecosystem Association

​BC + AI led by Kris Krüg is a grassroots network of educators, technologists, artists, and community builders shaping a uniquely BC approach to AI rooted in accessibility, community, and ethical design.

​Questions or want to get involved? [email protected] or [email protected].

​We look forward to learning and unlearning together.