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Flora Weil is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Interactive Media Arts (IMA) at NYU Shanghai. She is a Eurasian interdisciplinary designer, artist, and researcher with a background in engineering. She takes a holistic approach to developing technology that combines ecology, design, anthropology, cybernetics, and speculative thinking. She holds a double Master's in Innovation Design Engineering from the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London. Her past projects have been shown at the V&A Museum, Dutch Design Week, Milan Design Week, and the Singapore Art Museum.

As a design engineer at the University of Tokyo, she led multiple interdisciplinary projects that turned emerging scientific research into proposals for new products and platforms. She was previously a research fellow at Strelka Institute, Transformations of the Human, M+ Museum and Design Trust.

She co-runs an interactive media studio called Nephila that builds open-source tools for experimental worldbuilding. She engages with complex, often contradictory environmental conditions, aiming to create new ways of thinking about, representing, and experiencing the world.

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Design in Rising WindsFlora Weil

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(...) What might we learn from materials that refuse our models? Nora Khan proposes thinking of AI as "as a primordial force of nature, like a star system or a hurricane — something strong, but indifferent."⁵⁰ Perhaps sand offers another metaphor: intelligence as that which slips between categories, accumulating into new forms through its very resistance to capture. As Catherine Malabou states, "Intelligence 'is' not; rather, it only exists through its own transformations."⁵¹ These demon cities and herd kindergartens show us perhaps that notions that have come to define our species–intelligence, evolution–emerge precisely from where our models fail. What might science look like when it mirrors the incoherent, the unsound, and the anomalous? In a project describing future human-AI interactions,...(more)

artworkfieldwareIan Margo 2025, digital video, color, sound 16:9 4K, 11:00min...(more)