Ani Liu is a designer, creative engineer, artist, and lecturer, currently conducting research in the Design Fiction group at MIT Media Lab. Her work deals with the intersection between technology, culture & the mediated body.

Interfacing the body with the spheres of architecture, prosthetics, and the science of perception, she searches for the epiphanies linking technological innovation with behavioral change. Ani continually seeks to discover the unexpected, through playful experimentation, intuition, and speculative storytelling. 

In 2014-15 she lead the research program in Sensory Mediation at the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities, which explores how information visualization, augmented reality, and other emerging technologies can be harnessed to extend the human sensorium to redefine spatial experience. 

She taught as an Associate Instructor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she co-taught an upper-level architectural studio called Architecture of Cultural Prosthetics: Tools for Communication and Expression in the Public Space with Krzysztof Wodiczko. 

Ani has a B.A. from Dartmouth College, and received a Masters of Architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, earning a distinction for her thesis in wearable technologies, responsive environments, and cultural prosthetics. 

Currently working on her thesis linking synthetic biology to emotional affordances and interspecies empathy at MIT Media Lab, she is actively looking for new opportunities after graduation.

Her online portfolio can be found at www.ani-liu.com