How might AI transform the way we design sustainable materials? This session explores using generative AI to design nature-inspired, emotionally resonant materials & accelerates eco-friendly adoption by helping designers visualize their applications. By generating textures & color maps & applying them to CAD designs using tools like Keyshot and AI platforms, we can create realistic product renders that connect today's lab innovations to tomorrow's market-ready designs.
Examples like cactus leather & the wabi-sabi aesthetic highlight AI's challenges and opportunities in capturing the detailed, imperfect beauty of sustainable natural materials--qualities that deeply resonate with humans.
Attendees will learn to integrate AI into workflows for sustainable innovation & use nature-inspired palettes to create and visualize materials that evoke humanizing, nurturing triggers. This session blends technology, craft, and sustainability to inspire innovative approaches to eco-conscious design.
Tiange Wang
Senior Software Designer
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Tiange Wang is an award-winning and internationally-exhibiting designer and creative technologist. Her work investigates innovative interactive paradigms among humans, technology and the environment. Tackling subjects like climate change, holistic wellbeing, multisensory experiences and speculative futures, she employs mediums including multimodal interaction, creative data visualization, multimedia art, installation, food, mix-reality, software, AI and games. As a senior software designer at IDEO, she leads teams in crafting human-centered, planet-conscious, data-informed and GenAI-enabled product experiences across web, mobile and spatial computing platforms, guiding clients through transformative journeys across technology, health, climate, media, and consumer products industries & taking ideas from concept to launch.
Miguel Macias
Senior Industrial Design Lead
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Miguel is a Senior Project Lead at IDEO, an empathic creative leader and a maker obsessed with solving small physical problems all the way to systemic change in large organizations. He is experienced at bringing complex projects to fruition and pushing the Industrial Design craft. Miguel has over 13 years of experience in the Industrial Design field working at several design centric brands such as Nike, Lululemon, Vicis, Giro and IDEO. He has a depth of expertise in the sport segment and the unique skill of blending “soft” and “hard” products into a cohesive product. His work can be seen in the NFL, Tour de France, Premier League among others.
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