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Caterina standing on a set of stairs, wearing an orange/brown coloured dress. They are smiling at the the camera.

Job title:

Chancellor's Fellow

Office:

Institute for Design Informatics, Informatics Forum

Biography

Caterina holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Nottingham (2018) and an artist diploma in piano performance from the Conservatorio G.B. Martini, Bologna (2014). Her prior affiliations include roles as a research associate at the University of Konstanz, and as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turin.

Research interests

  • Human-AI Co-Creativity
  • Philosophy of Creativity
  • Creativity Support Tools
  • Responsible AI
  • Human and Artificial Agency

Teaching

Design Informatics Project (DESI11026).

Research

Caterina Moruzzi is a Chancellor's fellow (tenure-track assistant professor) in the Institute for Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Her research lies at the intersection between human and artificial creativity, philosophy of art, and the philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As BRAID Research Fellow, she is leading a project in collaboration with Adobe to promote the responsible integration of AI tools into creative practices. As Co-Investigator in the UKRI-funded CoSTAR and DECaDE projects, she investigates the disruptive effects that emerging technological innovations have on creative workflows.

At the forefront of the research on modes of shared agency and creativity between humans, data, and technology, Caterina is research affiliate of the Centre for Technomoral Futures and lead of the Edinburgh College of Art in the Advisory Board of the Centre for Data, Culture & Society. She actively engages in panel discussions and conferences that convene stakeholders from academia, industry, and policy-making spheres to discuss the impact of AI on the creative sector. To promote interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaborations on the topic, in 2024 she started the research cluster "Creativity, AI, and the Human" at the Edinburgh Futures Institute which now counts more than 120 members from across academia, industry, and the third sector.

Her scholarly work has been published in journals such as Philosophy Compass, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, British Journal of Aesthetics, ACM Communication Design Quarterly, Leonardo (MIT Press), as well as in conference proceedings including the CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems and the ACM Creativity & Cognition.

PhD Supervision Topics

  • Creativity
  • Human-AI Co-Creativity
  • Responsible AI
  • Creativity Support Tools
  • Agency
  • Computational Creativity
  • Philosophy of Art and Creativity
  • Philosophy of AI
  • Aesthetics

This exhibition took place on the 7-17 August 2025, at the Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh as part of the Edinburgh Fringe 2025 program and Edinburgh Arts Festival 2025.

Artworks exhibited:

Kinnari Saraiya, The View from Above

dmstfctn, Grokh Tung Tung  

Georgia Gardner, Mimetic Virtuosity

This commission programme was presented in collaboration with Adobe and the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI). It is part of the CREA-TEC project, led by Dr Caterina Moruzzi and supported by the Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) programme with funds received from the Arts and Humanities Research Council [grant number AH/X007146/1].

Video credit: Stuart Armitt

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