This project asks what it means to build the table together, treating it as both a literal and symbolic site for collective resistance and care. Local hosts in Atlanta (Catherine Wieczorek & Carl DiSalvo), Hasselt (Joysmar Rodríguez Alfonzo), and Lisbon (Elvia Vasconcelos) each gathered participants around a table according to their group's goals, working independently under shared commitments. Together, these gatherings form small experiments in living together otherwise. I co-organized the project and led its Atlanta edition.

The Atlanta edition invites creatives to work through their use, non-use, and misuse of AI. It's a difficult subject for artists to put into words: the technology is opaque, and the stakes are personal for people whose livelihoods and identities are bound up in their practice. The workbook was first prototyped collaboratively by Vasconcelos, Wieczorek, and Rodríguez Alfonzo, then further refined for the Atlanta site. On Practice, Place, and AI: A Workbook Towards a Collective Manifesto for Creatives guides participants from reflection on their own creative practices, to discussion of where AI does or does not fit within that work, and finally to drafting a shared manifesto that sets out conditions for how AI might show up in their practice, if at all. It moves from private reflection on each person's creative practice, to open discussion of where AI fits into that work, to drafting a shared manifesto that sets conditions for how AI should show up in their practice, if at all. The first session took place on April 25, 2026, when local artists and creatives spent a day working through the workbook together at Freeside Atlanta.

Their commitments were documented on a custom-printed poster and later folded into a Riso-printed zine. The workbook and photos from the session were shown at the 2026 Participatory Design Conference in Milan as part of a wider exhibit on the project's distributed tables. It is one small, local answer to a question the project keeps returning to: how to make room for artists to question, refuse, or reimagine AI on their own terms.