Hybrid Intelligences Summer B Program

Embodied Leadership and Creativity in the Era of AI
About this Event

Part of the UF Creative B summer term, the interdisciplinary Hybrid Intelligences program explores creative foundational leadership in the era of emerging technology. Faculty, artists and researchers will facilitate a series of workshops and studio sessions reflecting diverse perspectives on embodiment and knowledge-making - from architecture and choreography to philosophy, ethics, and the intersections of art and medicine. In 'Futures Lab' sessions, participants will imagine and prototype alternative trajectories for human–machine collaboration.

Dates: July 13 - 30, 2026

Location: Leadership Studio 370 at Herbert Wertheim Laboratory for Engineering Excellence (UF campus)

Open to: Undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines, and community members. Participants must be 18 or older.

Program Structure

The program is organized into three themes, with three sessions each on key topics at the intersection of emergining technology, creativity, and embodied knowledge. Participants may attend any combination of sessions. Complete 2 of the 3 sessions of any track to earn a free ‘Creative Intelligences’ Digital Badge micro-credential!

Track 1: Embodiment, Memory and Emerging Technology

Mondays, 12:30 - 3:15pm

Track 2 | FUTURES LAB: Speculation, Prototyping & Possible Worlds

Wednesdays, 5:30 - 7:30pm

Track 3 | Ethics and Embodied Creative Leadership

Thursdays, 12:30 - 3:15pm

On Tuesdays, Marlon Barrios Solano will offer studio and mentoring time to students to develop ideas, refine skills, and build experimental prototypes. The program culminates in a public Open Lab / Open Studio participant showcase with the UF campus and Gainesville community.

See full Agenda below for dates, topics, and guest facilitators.

Hosted by the Center for Arts, Migration + Entrepreneurship (CAME) with the IGNITE Program at the Engineering Innovation Institute and the Center for Arts in Medicine (CAM). Sponsored in part by the College of the Arts Creative B Summer Program in partnership with the Office of the Provost.

Track 1

🕑: 12:30 PM - 03:15 PM
Monday July 13
Host: Karla Saldaña Ochoa

Info: AI and Architecture: https://dcp.ufl.edu/faculties/karla-saldana-ochoa/

🕑: 12:30 PM - 03:15 PM
Monday July 20
Host: Onye Ozuzu

Info: Choreography and memory

🕑: 12:30 PM - 03:15 PM
Monday July 27
Host: Corey Cheval

Info: Partner acrobatics & Object Manipulation

Track 2: Futures Lab

🕑: 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Wednesday July 15
Host: Erika Moore

Info: A hands-on laboratory dedicated to future thinking. Participants develop speculative scenarios, prototypes, and experimental frameworks to imagine alternative relationships between humans, emerging technology, and society.

🕑: 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Wednesday July 22
Host: Erika Moore

Info: A hands-on laboratory dedicated to future thinking. Participants develop speculative scenarios, prototypes, and experimental frameworks to imagine alternative relationships between humans, emerging technology, and society.

🕑: 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Wednesday July 29
Host: Erika Moore

Info: A hands-on laboratory dedicated to future thinking. Participants develop speculative scenarios, prototypes, and experimental frameworks to imagine alternative relationships between humans, emerging technology, and society.

Track 3

🕑: 12:30 PM - 03:15 PM
Thursday July 16
Host: Erika Moore

Info: Focuses on leadership through ethical inquiry, critical reflection, and embodied practice. This track examines responsibility, agency, and decision-making in hybrid human–machine systems.

🕑: 12:30 PM - 03:15 PM
Thursday July 23
Host: Cameron Buckner

Info: AI, Authorship, Ethics, Data Ecologies and Law

🕑: 12:30 PM - 03:15 PM
Thursday July 30
Host: Melissa White

Info: Human centered design