AMC Creative Synergy Seminar Series - The Hybrid Turn: Designing with Living Matter and Machines
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As AI systems grow more advanced, they remain constrained by human-designed sensors and parameters. Plants, however, have evolved sophisticated sensing over millions of years—detecting chemical gradients, light, stress, and environmental shifts beyond human perception. Prof. Harpreet SAREEN's work explores what happens when biological sensing meets computational processing: robots guided by plant signals, nanosensors embedded in tissue, and electronics grown from organic materials. By treating plants as active, intelligent systems integrated with AI, we can design technologies grounded in ecological intelligence.
🔗 ZOOM link
https://hkust.zoom.us/j/95785314181?pwd=DUbCgbzvj9Hp9fgTCz54VIhoWg9SqI.1
Associate Professor of Interaction and Media Design & Director of Synthetic Ecosystems Lab
Parsons School of Design, The New School (New York)
Biography of the Speaker
Harpreet Sareen is an Associate Professor of Interaction and Media Design at Parsons School of Design, The New School (New York), where he directs the Synthetic Ecosystems Lab. He has held visiting professorships internationally at several institutions and most recently is a Visiting Associate Professor at MIT. Sareen earned graduate degrees from MIT Media Lab and The University of Tokyo. His research explores post-anthropocentric design, developing hybrid technologies that integrate living organisms with digital systems to reimagine human-nature relationships.