About — 

Humbi Song is an Assistant Professor & Emerging Architect Fellow at the University of Toronto, and Visiting Faculty at Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Her work focuses on the intersection of architecture, technology and human-computer interaction. She researches

• how designers shape and are shaped by computational tools of design, 
• generative AI in the architectural design process, and
• computation that is physically embedded into the built environment

She studies the evolving relationships between human creativity and interactive technologies such as generative AI and physical computing, in the context of broader societal and technological influences on how designs are conceived, created and experienced. 

As her creative practice, she builds spatial installations and pavilions to explore these co-creative processes between designers, responsive interactive technologies and AI. These projects often take the form of interactive installations in the public realm that use sensors and actuators to respond dynamically to human presence or the environment. This work has been supported by the Loghaven Artist Residency, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and the Digital Stone Project.

Song has held faculty positions at University of Toronto, Harvard GSD, Northeastern University, and Wentworth Institute of Technology, where she has taught undergraduate and graduate core, options, and thesis architecture studios, and seminars in computation, AI, responsive architecture, and fabrication. 


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