Objects of AI

This panel explores how generative and embodied AI are transforming design into a materially intelligent practice. Through projects spanning olfactory storytelling, edible architecture, autonomous instruments, and robotic co-fabrication, the discussion investigates how intelligence manifests through physical form, sensory interaction, and situated behavior. Bringing together researchers from architecture, robotics, music, and computational design, the panel examines how physical AI systems reconfigure the relationship between cognition and materiality, suggesting new paradigms for co-creation and human experience in an embodied, multisensory design ecology.

Panelists: Selina Khan Alexander Htet Kyaw Cyrus Clarke Masatoshi Hamanaka Ethan Chang