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HUMBI
SONG


WORK

Digital "Emergence" x
Generative Design Tools
︎ Nonlinear Human-AI Interaction
︎ VR x AI Realtime Workflow
︎ VR x AI Sculpture
︎ Designing with AI?
︎ AI Pedagogy Case Studies
︎ Generative 3DPrinted Bldgs
︎ Design Fictions in HCI

Interactive Works
︎ HouseZero Geothermal
︎ Secret Garden
︎ Pulsus
︎ The Jellyfish Robot
︎ Ghost in the Machine
︎ Attributes of Aliveness

Architecture/Urban
︎ The Hub404
︎ The Loop
︎ The Museum
︎ The Handrail
︎ The Inlay
︎ The Bridge
︎ Student Works

Spatial Perception
in the Built Environment
︎ Mental Breadcrumbs
︎ Biometric Wearables
︎ Air Travel Design Guide
︎ Fragments of City Memories
︎ Airscape of CO2 Levels

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Humbi Song is an Assistant Professor and Emerging Architect Fellow at the University of Toronto. 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, and
  • generative AI in the architectural design process.

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. 

Her current research explores questions surrounding co-design and co-creation with generative AI and digital fabrication tools that seemingly interact with humans with a degree of agency. Current advances in generative AI offer an opportunity for the discipline to further interrogate how we shape and are shaped by the tools of design, who gets to shape our built environment, and what is the impact of AI’s increased accessibility to design and “making” practices for community members and non-design professionals.

Her recent scholarly contributions include pedagogical research on integrating digital AI literacy in architectural education (SIGRADI 2024), a prototype fabrication project of Human-AI collaborative marble sculpting through real-time VR x AI workflows (ACADIA 2024) and new quantitative methods for understanding spatial experiences and spatial memory in airports (ECADE 2022) and urban neighbourhoods (SIGRADI 2022) through wearable biometric technology, the last of which was recognized with the conference’s Research Innovation Award. 

In her creative practice, she builds spatial installations 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 and movement, serving as playful and poetic explorations of human behaviour and social relationships within the built environment. Her creative practice has been supported by various fellowships and international residencies, including the Loghaven Fellowship, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and the Digital Stone Project.

Song has held faculty positions at University of Toronto, Harvard GSD, and Northeastern University, where she has taught undergraduate core architecture studios, graduate thesis research studios and seminars in computation, AI, responsive architecture, and fabrication. She directs Studio Humbi Song, LLC and previously worked at MVVA (Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates), Rogers Partners Architects, and INVIVIA. She holds an Bachelor’s in Social Studies, M.Arch from Harvard University, and is pursuing a doctoral degree from Harvard Graduate School of Design.


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