Three days in Costa da Morte where local creators and coliving residents explored the tools — and the questions — that are reshaping creative work.
These last three days at iSlow Coliving were intense, productive, and above all, eye-opening. As part of Ágora Rural‘s Rural Tic Aulas Dixitalizadas programme, we hosted two consecutive courses — “Aprende a facer prompts como un pro” (“Learn to prompt like a pro”) for the first two days, and “Multiplica o teu contido coa IA” (“Multiply your content with AI”) on the third — designed for people who already use AI and want to take the next step: a more professional, creative, and thoughtful approach.
Guided by Óscar de Miguel, former member of the second Fixar cohort, we worked through a dense but beautifully structured programme. We started from the foundation — how to write professional prompts — and built up layer by layer: creating and analysing documents, producing coherent image series, video with real narrative, professional audio with cloned voices and original music, and finally, automating full workflows for home, professional, and entrepreneurial use.
Along the way we explored tools like Claude Projects, Gemini Gems, Leonardo.ai, NotebookLM, ElevenLabs, Suno, LTX Studio, CapCut, Make, and Google Sheets. But the course was no surface-level tour of apps: each block ended with a piece actually produced by the participants themselves — from character and brand sheets to short videos edited end-to-end and automation flows running live.
And, as often happens at iSlow, what unfolded between sessions was as valuable as the programme itself. We sat at the table with members of the local community and coliving residents — people with very different backgrounds and ages — and the conversation kept circling back to the same questions: how is our work changing? How far do we actually want to go with AI? Where are the ethical limits? What do we lose when we let it do too much for us? There was debate, listening, and a few healthy disagreements. There was also plenty of coffee and a lot of laughter.
None of this would have been possible without the team at Ara Formaciones, or the support of Fundación Alma Natura, which backs from its own experience the kind of initiatives we believe rural areas need: ones that weave together technology, community, and a way of living.
We left these three days with fuller toolboxes, a tighter group, and one idea that came up again and again: the interesting part isn’t AI itself, but what we’re capable of doing with it when we have judgement, context, and the right people to share it with.
See you at the next course.
