2026

Mar 2026 — Yujie Liu (Jessie), with a background in English literature, just joined @A as an Mphil student. She will work with digital humanities, generative AI, human-computer, and human-animal interaction. Welcome Yujie!
Mar 2026 — Lei Han (Simon), master’s graduate from HKUST-gz, with a background in fine arts from the Chinese Academy of Fine Art (CAFA) joined @A as a co-supervised PhD student (with prof. David Yip as main supervisor). 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 candidate. He will work on 4D printing actuators for origami/kirigami structures to be used as facade elements Welcome Lucky!

2025

Dec 2025 — Yunwei Li, a recent master’s 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 Cluj, Romania, a bi-annual conference that brings together the Romanian scientific diaspora and was part of a workshop/panel called The impact of design and the visual arts in contemporary society
Nov 2025 - Stella Huang, a recent master’s graduate of Creative Media from CityU Hong Kong, 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 PhD co-supervised students (Yawei with prof. Pan Hui and Yufeng with prof. Chen Liang - both 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