Undercurrents – Distributed environmental OS where infrastructure, poetry, and computation converge
Located inside the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, Undercurrents creates a seemingly endless "switchboard" of connections where participant voices are transformed into pulses of light that travel along branching paths.
Synthetic Spirits – Kinetic sculptures reveal a hidden world
Kinetic installation exploring tsukumogam — everyday objects that acquire spirits. A sake bottle and straw sandal glide past screens as generative AI reveals yokai spirits, contrasting folklore with today's throwaway culture.
TreeSoil – Robotic 3D-printed earthen microclimate shelter for saplings
TreeSoil is a 3D-printed earthen structure that shields young trees in degraded areas, creating microclimates for early growth. It revives ancient soil-shaping practices through computational design and robotic fabrication.
Chair 2 – Merging the mundane with the uncanny
Developed during a residency at New Lab (Detroit), Chair 2 explores the mundane with the uncanny, where an ordinary chair "comes alive" through motion.
Histolysis – Pulsing in peristaltic rhythms
Histolysis is a kinetic installation that engages nonhuman systems through attunement rather than control. Suspended above the floor, its root-like structure pulses with quiet, peristaltic motion.
Necto – 3D Knitted, Anticlastic, Spatial Surface
Necto explores the theme of Intelligens through an immersive and computationally derived membrane structure that speculates on the future of temporary structures—lightweight, flexible and efficient, and embedded with latent intelligence.
Renment – Writing with (linear) objects
Inspired by Charles Dickens' aphorism, 'We forge the chains we wear in life,' Yuichiro Katsumoto created a device that forms letters with chains. For Yuichiro, the chain is a metaphor for heavy and unbreakable things that bind our ideas and emotio...
Homing the Machine in Architecture – Galo Canizares, Zach Cohen
Homing the Machine in Architecture is a series of conversations on the ways designers, practitioners, historians, and theorists orient themselves within the world of architectural digital fabrication.
Surrogate – Bodily autonomy at the age of rapidly developing reproductive technologies
Surrogate is a body of work centred around issues of reproductive technology and bodily autonomy comprised of a series of physical and performative inputs and outputs to engage and provoke conversations about the topic.
MAN-NAHĀTA – The land of many hills
In their continued effort to seek out an equilibrium between man-made and nature, MAN-NAHĀTA is the latest project by OXMAN (previously Mediated Matter Group at the MIT Media Lab). The project is a top-down master planning braved by bottom-up-desi...
Sonic Playground – Playful acoustics by Yuri Suzuki Design
Created by Yuri Suzuki Design in collaboration with High Atlanta, Sonic Playground is an outdoor sound installation that features ingenious, colourful sculptures that modify and transmit sound in unusual, engaging and playful ways.
Genesis of a Microbial Skin – Beehives designed for urban environments
Created by AnneMarie Maes, Genesis of a Microbial Skin is a mixed media installations and a research project exploring the idea of Intelligent Beehives with a focus on smart materials, in particular microbial skin. The project is about predominant...
Making ‘Moon Phases’ tangible and poetic
Created by Yingjie Bei and Yifan Hu at ITP, Moon Phases allows the audience to input any date and it will show the moon phase for that night (from the northern hemisphere's perspective).
