24-27 February
International training course
SALERNO
Association MAREA, Via Davide Galdi, 10
with Massimo Gerardo Carrese (Fantasiology & Artificial Intelligence)
and Luca Puglisi (Navigating latent space)
“Fantasiology and Artificial Intelligence is a two-day intensive training program that explores the key differences and creative tensions between human imagination, imagery, and creativity, and generative artificial intelligence. Based on the fantasiological framework developed by Massimo Gerardo Carrese (www.fantasiologo.com), the course approaches imagination, imagery, and creativity not as vague or mystical abilities, nor AI as an enigmatic form of intelligence, but as processes that can be observed, described, discussed, and understood from scientific, humanistic, ludic, and artistic perspectives.
The program combines theoretical insights with practical application, focusing on how humans create meaning, images, ideas, and symbolic structures, and how artificial intelligence systems generate similar-looking outputs through different internal mechanisms. Fantasiology offers an interdisciplinary perspective on imagination, inventiveness, imagery, creativity, memory, and symbolic thinking, helping participants recognize and practice distinctions that are often blurred in everyday conversations, especially when discussing AI creativity.
Through specially designed hands-on exercises (linguistic, numerical, artistic) created by Carrese for this program, participants work in small groups to actively explore and experiment with how imaginative thinking works in practice and how to organize ideas, build projects, and concepts, and navigate complex systems. The activities encourage flexible thinking, problem-solving, breaking habitual patterns, and looking at situations from multiple points of view. Rather than teaching how to use AI tools, this two-day training course helps participants develop a clearer, more conscious way of thinking with and against artificial systems through both conceptual frameworks and direct experiential work.”
