Design tools shape how we think as designers. This lecture and exhibition explores experiments using interactive design technologies and architectural tools of design, to resist the flattening tendencies of screen-based workflows by reintegrating bodily knowledge into creative practice. Drawing from research at the intersection of architecture, AI, craft, and human-computer interaction, "Unruly Intelligences" presents projects spanning real-time VR sketching, generative AI workflows, robotic fabrication, and sensors, each positioning the designer's body as an active site of knowledge production.

Assistant Professor Humbi Song is an Emerging Architect Fellow at the University of Toronto's John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Her work focuses on the intersection of architecture, technology and human-computer interaction. She investigates the evolving relationships between human creativity and interactive technologies, such as physical computing and AI, in the context of broader societal and technological influences on how designs are conceived, created and experienced. In her practice, she builds spatial installations and fabrication experiments to explore these co-creative processes between designers, responsive interactive technologies and AI.

The lecture will immediately follow the opening of the exhibition taking place from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Larry Wayne Richards Gallery. The exhibition will be on view weekdays from February 27 to March 27, 2026.