In this lecture, designer and artist Xiaobi Iris Pan (https://irispan.net/) will share design trends made possible with the latest AI and XR technologies. Iris believes the future of design should poetically bridge the digital world with the physical, to create a world where bits and atoms are interwoven, where technology is used to connect rather than isolate, inspire rather than distract, nourish rather than exhaust people.
The lecture will feature 3 of Iris’ independent design works, including
1) Love Cassette, the first-of-its-kind sound interactive installation that can turn one’s love message into a postcard on the spot, to date, Love Cassette has been visited by over 1 million participants around the world.
2)Heat Chair, an innovative computational design and fabrication system that can turn human ergonomics data into the robotic heating path, to manufacture a chair that is completely responsive to human ergonomics.
3) a series of XR interactive projects that break the boundary between the digital and physical world.
The audience will learn from the lecture:
1) The future is physical. From an experience level, Iris is advocating for hybrid and holistic experience design where the experience itself involves multiple senses and bridges the digital world with the physical.
2) From a human level, our products and experiences need to be personalizable, anticipatory, and adaptable to human needs and various human states. And luckily, now these designs are made possible with advanced AI technology.
3) From an environment and system level, the future of design needs to be programmable. (Material, Algorithm, Fabrication. etc.)
These trends are also made possible because of the most recent advanced manufacturing techniques (e.g. nano-scale 3D printing, bio-programmable material, etc.)