Agentic Creative Intelligence: Designing With AI to Reclaim Human Agency
Autor Joseph Press, Yilin Wangen Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 dec 2026
Agentic Creative Intelligence responds to this crisis by arguing that creativity can be rejuvenated by configuring our relationships with agents. We propose intelligent intermediaries called dæmons to raise aesthetic awareness, extend engagement, adapt intention, and express influence. Together they converge into a Creative Council that enables a new chain of co-creation: practitioner, dæmon, agent.
Grounded in the practices of iconic practitioners and drawing on Chinese philosophy, the book explores how these capacities can be sustained in speculative scenarios across seven creative disciplines. It then examines human agency where innovators, educators, and changemakers apply the framework for systemic change.
We are in an agentic era, a new Pandæmonium of industry and intelligence, where creation is shared with non-humans. Agentic Creative Intelligence asks designers, innovators, and educators: will we proactively define our relationship between human and machine, or relinquish our agency for good?
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781041211259
ISBN-10: 1041211252
Pagini: 356
Ilustrații: 170
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1041211252
Pagini: 356
Ilustrații: 170
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Professional Practice & Development and Professional ReferenceCuprins
Introduction. Part 1: Creative Capabilities in the Agentic Era 1. Extended Engagement: Hands Form the Mind 2. Aesthetic Awareness: When Presence Reveals Clarity 3. Adaptive Coherence: The Thread Through Abundance 4. Expressive Influence: Catalysts of the Social Kind 5. Agentic Creative Intelligence: Creative Convergence Part 2: Creative Disciplines in a Near-Future 6. The Fine Arts: Image as Witness 7. The Built Arts: Monumental Metabolism 8. The Tangible Arts: Object as Organism 9. The Moving Arts: Fluidity of Time 10. The Sensory Arts: Body of Mind 11. The Playful Arts: Gaming Agency 12. The Performing Arts: Constructing Shared Realities 13. The Reflective Arts: Where Thought Emerges Part 3: Creative Complexities in Systemic Change 14. Changemakers: Preparing the Terrain 15. Innovators: Augmenting a Maker Community 16. Educators: Growing the Person 17: A Day of Creative Change Conclusion: The Agentic Creative Path Epilogue: Toward an Agentic Transhumanism
Recenzii
“Press and Wang have written ACI the field has been waiting for, one that takes both meaning and machines seriously. Their notion of capability cultivated through resistance is a genuine contribution to how we lead innovation. Read it, then design differently.”
Roberto Verganti, Professor of Leadership and Innovation, Stockholm School of Economics
“A rare book that treats the agentic era as an invitation to cultivate human capability rather than surrender it. Press and Wang give practitioners a vocabulary and a practice for staying in the work as the tools grow more capable. This is foresight in its most useful form, turned toward what we can become.”
Bob Johansen, Distinguished Fellow, Institute for the Future
[Word count: 54 — trim by about four words to meet the 50-word limit.]
“A thoughtful, rigorous account of how creative professionals can meet powerful tools without losing themselves. The forecasts are grounded, the scenarios humane, and the philosophy load-bearing. Essential reading for the years ahead.”
Sebastian Shaw, Strategy, Partnerships, and Growth for Enterprise in GenAI and Creative Software, Adobe
Additional endorsements (for the online profile)
“I have rarely seen the case for human creativity made with such clarity and such practical force. The dæmon is an idea I expect to borrow for years. Anyone building with AI should read this before their next release.”
Ibrahim Jackson, AI Thought Leadership, Forbes Business Council
“Here is a design philosophy for an age that badly needs one. ACI holds Eastern thought and frontier technology in the same hand, and lets each sharpen the other. It belongs in every design school confronting the question of what remains ours to make.”
Lou Yongqi, President, Shanghai University of Engineering Science
“Equal parts argument and toolkit, this book reframes the conversation about AI and creativity. Its insistence on embodied practice is both timely and quietly radical. I finished it wanting to make something with my hands.”
Richard Hsu, Founder and Curator, TEDxShanghai
“The authors recover ideas from the Chinese tradition as working instruments, not decoration. The result is a book that thinks across cultures as naturally as it thinks across disciplines. I will return to it often.”
Dajuin Yao, Professor, School of Inter-Media Art, China Academy of Art
“A clear-eyed map for practitioners who refuse the false choice between embracing AI and protecting their craft. The dæmon reframes the tool as a partner in development rather than a replacement. Practical, original, and deeply humane.”
Greg Demchak, Senior Director, Digital Innovation Lab, Bentley Systems
“An elegant synthesis of philosophy, neuroscience, and design practice. The writing is precise and the argument generous, leaving the reader with agency rather than anxiety. A vital contribution to the creative professions.”
Chantal Matar, Architect and Generative Designer, Studio Chantal Matar
“Few books about AI manage to be both rigorous and moving. This one earns its hope by grounding every claim in practice and evidence. It will reward anyone who creates for a living.”
Itay Schiff, Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer, Figma Weave
“A bracing, generous book that refuses both the hype and the despair around AI. It hands creative professionals something rare, a practice for growing stronger as the tools grow more capable. I will be recommending it widely.”
Olivier Marin, Program Head, Humans+Machines, Shanghai University of Engineering Science
Roberto Verganti, Professor of Leadership and Innovation, Stockholm School of Economics
“A rare book that treats the agentic era as an invitation to cultivate human capability rather than surrender it. Press and Wang give practitioners a vocabulary and a practice for staying in the work as the tools grow more capable. This is foresight in its most useful form, turned toward what we can become.”
Bob Johansen, Distinguished Fellow, Institute for the Future
[Word count: 54 — trim by about four words to meet the 50-word limit.]
“A thoughtful, rigorous account of how creative professionals can meet powerful tools without losing themselves. The forecasts are grounded, the scenarios humane, and the philosophy load-bearing. Essential reading for the years ahead.”
Sebastian Shaw, Strategy, Partnerships, and Growth for Enterprise in GenAI and Creative Software, Adobe
Additional endorsements (for the online profile)
“I have rarely seen the case for human creativity made with such clarity and such practical force. The dæmon is an idea I expect to borrow for years. Anyone building with AI should read this before their next release.”
Ibrahim Jackson, AI Thought Leadership, Forbes Business Council
“Here is a design philosophy for an age that badly needs one. ACI holds Eastern thought and frontier technology in the same hand, and lets each sharpen the other. It belongs in every design school confronting the question of what remains ours to make.”
Lou Yongqi, President, Shanghai University of Engineering Science
“Equal parts argument and toolkit, this book reframes the conversation about AI and creativity. Its insistence on embodied practice is both timely and quietly radical. I finished it wanting to make something with my hands.”
Richard Hsu, Founder and Curator, TEDxShanghai
“The authors recover ideas from the Chinese tradition as working instruments, not decoration. The result is a book that thinks across cultures as naturally as it thinks across disciplines. I will return to it often.”
Dajuin Yao, Professor, School of Inter-Media Art, China Academy of Art
“A clear-eyed map for practitioners who refuse the false choice between embracing AI and protecting their craft. The dæmon reframes the tool as a partner in development rather than a replacement. Practical, original, and deeply humane.”
Greg Demchak, Senior Director, Digital Innovation Lab, Bentley Systems
“An elegant synthesis of philosophy, neuroscience, and design practice. The writing is precise and the argument generous, leaving the reader with agency rather than anxiety. A vital contribution to the creative professions.”
Chantal Matar, Architect and Generative Designer, Studio Chantal Matar
“Few books about AI manage to be both rigorous and moving. This one earns its hope by grounding every claim in practice and evidence. It will reward anyone who creates for a living.”
Itay Schiff, Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer, Figma Weave
“A bracing, generous book that refuses both the hype and the despair around AI. It hands creative professionals something rare, a practice for growing stronger as the tools grow more capable. I will be recommending it widely.”
Olivier Marin, Program Head, Humans+Machines, Shanghai University of Engineering Science
Notă biografică
Joseph Press is a futurist, educator, and author. Trained as an architect, he embarked on a15+ year career in management consulting and 10+ years in applied foresight, before turning to creative education. He currently leads the Strategy + Management program at the School of Design at Shanghai University of Engineering Science, where he prepares the next generation of design leaders for the agentic era. He previouly held positions at China Academy of Art, Parsons the New School of Design, Politecnico di Milano in both the Management and Design programs. He has co-authored five books on design, digital innovation, and leadership-led transformation.
Yilin Wang is a designer and lecturer at Shanghai University of Engineering Science, where she joined in 2025. She holds a Ph.D. from the College of Design and Innovation at Tongji University and an M.A. from the Royal College of Art. Her work sits at the intersection of creative practice, community engagement and AI. She represents a new generation of Chinese educators and designers committed to shaping more sustainable futures.
Yilin Wang is a designer and lecturer at Shanghai University of Engineering Science, where she joined in 2025. She holds a Ph.D. from the College of Design and Innovation at Tongji University and an M.A. from the Royal College of Art. Her work sits at the intersection of creative practice, community engagement and AI. She represents a new generation of Chinese educators and designers committed to shaping more sustainable futures.
Descriere
AI is accelerating creative production at an unprecedented scale. As creatives delegate more to generative systems, meaning erodes through our deteriorating expectations. Agentic Creative Intelligence responds to this crisis by arguing that creativity can be rejuvenated by configuring our relationships with agents.