Youth, university and inclusion: outreach experiences from the workshop “Creating with AI: what does it know about us?”

Abstract

This article describes a training activity that took place within the Winter School extension project – “Paths of Technodiversity: Youth, Knowledge and Inclusion at the University Unesp Experience: experiences at the university for young people”, promoted by the Faculty of Architecture, Arts, Communication and Design (FAAC/Unesp), in Bauru, in 2025. The initiative, linked to the Postgraduate Programs in Media and Technology (PPGMIT) and in Communication (PPGCOM), aimed to bring high school students closer to university life, fostering inclusion, citizenship, and youth protagonism through interdisciplinary extension practices. The event included workshops, lectures, exhibitions, and discussion groups, and attracted more than 300 students from public and private schools. The objective is to report on the extension experience provided by the workshop “Creating with Artificial Intelligence (AI): what does it know about us?”, within the set of training activities carried out during the Winter School; The article raises a discussion regarding the educational and social impacts of events like this, highlighting the strengthening of the university-school link and the perception of belonging to the public university space; the democratization of access to science and the relevance of extension practices for the promotion of inclusion and technodiversity.