In Art, Technology, Architecture (@A), we conduct research that investigates the impact and effects of emerging technologies on creative practices (specifically architecture, design, and the visual arts). We use computational design, digital fabrication, AI, and living materials to create speculative concepts, artworks, and build architectural demonstrators. We focus on both practical and theoretical aspects of the impact of novel tools and materials on artistic and designerly outputs and publish academic research across architecture and design, media art and human-computer interaction.

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Mar 2026 — Yujie Liu (Jessie), with a background in English literature, just joined @A as an Mphil student. She will work on generative AI, human-computer, and human-animal interaction. Welcome Yujie!
Mar 2026 — Lei Han (Simon), master’s graduate from HKUST-gz, and with a background in fine arts from the Chinese Academy of Fine arts joined @A as a co-supervised PhD candidate (with prof. Davi Yip as main supervisoe). His work focuses on AI applied to learning about built cultural heritage. Welcome Simon!
Jan 2026 - editing a special issue under the theme Un-disciplinary: Entangled ways of seeing, knowing and doing in the journal ArtNodes. This builds on the Un-disciplinary symposium and art exhibition organized in Aalborg in 2023, and funded by Novo Nordisk Fonden
Jan 2026 — Chloe Zhu, a recent master’s graduate of Architecture from Chalmers University, just joined @A as a PhD student. She will work on developing a new material system combining Bio-rock technology with reclaimed seashell concrete. Welcome Chloe!
Jan 2026 — Lucky John Tutor, recent master’s graduate from HKUST-gz, just joined @A as a PhD student. He will work on 4D printing actuators for origami/kirigami structures to be used as facade elements. Welcome Lucky!
Dec 2025: The group is growing fast: Xiaojing Liang joined in early December as an admin guru. Welcome Xiaojing!
Dec 2025: Yunwei Li, recent master graduate of Design from Tsinghua University joins @A as Research Assistant. Yunwei will work on combining design for sustainability with design for play, building on her ideas of history-as-design. Welcome Yunwei!
Nov 2025 — talk on AI and bio-materials for design at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute
Nov 2025 - participated in the 14th EAI International Conference: ArtsIT, Interactivity & Game Creation conference which took place in Dubai, and chaired a special track on Art and Design in the AI Era: New Creative Practices, Data Curation, and Automation
Nov 2025 - participated in the SMART Diaspora conference in Romania, a conference organized by the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research as part of a workshop/panel called The impact of design and the visual arts in contemporary society
Nov 2025: Stella Huang, recent master graduate of Creative Media from CityU joins @A as a Research Assistant. Stella will work on two projects investigating video-based social media content: one on Urban to Rural migration, and the second on (techno-)feminism. Welcome Stella!
Oct 2025 - tocco.earth, one of the main platforms on bio-materials, featured our work: AI Pushes Material Choice Upstream, From Geometry to LCA
Oct 2025 - took part in a trip across China to see industrial production sites for robotics, new materials ,and bio-technologies, organized by tocco.earth
Oct 2025 - gave a talk at SUStech school of Design on Ecologies of Care and Language as Design material
Sept 2025 - The first two group members join @A: Yawei Zhao and Yufeng Zeng, both co-supervised PhD students (Yawei with prof. Pan Hui and Yufeng with prof. Chen Liang - bot from Computational Media and Arts at HKUST-gz). Yawei works with mixed reality for reactivating public space, while Yufeng works with Creativity Support Tools. Welcome both!
August 2025 - group founded