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The Center provides Philadelphia with educational programs, exhibitions, and a public forum to explore architecture, urban planning, and design, allowing visitors the opportunity to understand how these disciplines affect us all in our daily lives. Using our city’s distinctive breadth of architecture, pioneering urban design, and manufacturing heritage as the foundation for conversation, we educate the public through talks, exhibitions, publications, hands-on workshops, design competitions, festivals, and children’s programming.

The Navy Yard is a 1,200-acre thriving waterfront community, with 8 million square feet of real estate in a mix of historic buildings and LEED® certified new construction oriented around world-class open space. Since 2000, over $1 billion of public and private funding has been invested into the campus to redevelop the Navy Yard into a business campus and innovation hub, attracting over 150 companies employing more than 15,0000 workers and welcoming residents for the first time since the naval base closed. At full build-out, the Navy Yard will support up 20 million square feet of development, 30,000 people, and over $3 billion of private investment. Get connected with the Navy Yard. Website: navyyard.org Facebook: @TheNavyYard Instagram: @navyyardphila

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AI is shaping our world in profound ways—but how are we, as a community, thinking about and using it?

Our April event is an intentional deviation from the usual speaker/audience format and an invitation to join a collective conversation about AI’s possibilities, challenges, and the roles we want (or don’t want!) it to play in our lives.

This experience is part of a larger CreativeMornings initiative which seeks to bring more participatory events into the CreativeMornings universe.

There are currently 20+ CreativeMornings chapters around the world working to co-design and push the traditional event framework! All of these events will be collected under the umbrella “Thriving Through Change”.

The initiative to bring more participatory to our CreativeMornings universe is made possible by our Global Partner Adobe.

Come prepared to explore these questions:

1️⃣ Are you currently using AI in your work or life? If so, how?

2️⃣ What are your concerns about AI?

3️⃣ What are your hopes?

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? WHAT TO EXPECT

Welcome and Warm-Up: We’ll kick things off with a brief introduction, and some neighborly chatter (don’t worry, there will be modifications for introverts!)

After warming up, we’ll move into the main event—a series of participatory exercises about our topic. We’ll invite you to raise your hand to share your thoughts, experiences, or questions about AI. You can also just passively watch and not actively participate but we’re tried to make it pretty low effort.

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❤️ GROUNDING IN OUR VALUES

✔️ This experience is not about finding answers but exploring the complexities of AI together. It’s about surfacing the experiences of our community— listening and learning with and from each other.

✔️ Ethical concerns around AI will be part of the conversation, as we reflect on both its challenges and opportunities.

✔️ Introverts welcome! There will be moments for both sharing and quiet reflection.

✔️ The goal is to surface our thoughts, feelings, and questions—and to highlight ways AI can support us as artists and creatives.

? Recording Notice

This event is being recorded and will be shared on our website. By attending, you acknowledge that photos and videos may be taken and used for CreativeMornings content.

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