Humbi Song is an Instructor in Architecture at Harvard GSD and an Assistant Professor & Fellow at the University of Toronto Daniels Faculty. Her work focuses on the intersection of architecture, technology and human-computer interaction.

She explores the evolving relationships between human creativity and machines, as part of a broader societal and technological network of influences on how designs are conceived, created, and experienced. Her current research explores questions such as: What does it mean to co-create and co-build with AI and fabrication tools that seemingly interact with humans with a degree of agency? What are some potential interplays between “co-design” among humans and AI, and “co-design” among designers and community members in a participatory design process? 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 in the first place, and whether we can use AI to increase accessibility to “making” and facilitate community co-creation. 

Her recent scholarly contributions include a theoretical framework for categorizing different methods of human-AI interaction and proposing a non-linear and iterative frameworks for creative 3D modeling through human-AI interaction (ACADIA 2025); examining the ues of GPT agents as mediators for conflict resolution in collaborative spatial design (ACADIA 2025); and a robotic fabrication project of Human-AI collaborative marble sculpting through a real-time VR x AI workflow, (ACADIA 2024). Other prior research includes using biometric wearables for understanding spatial experiences and spatial memory in airports (ECADE 2022) and urban neighborhoods (SIGRADI 2022) through wearable technology, the latter of which was recognized with the conference’s ‘Research Innovation Award’.  

In her creative practice, she builds fabrication installations that prototype these co-creative processes between designers, responsive interactive technologies, and AI. These projects often take the form of interactive installations that respond dynamically to human presence and movement, serving as playful and poetic explorations of human behavior and social relationships within the built environment. Her creative practice has been supported by numerous fellowships and international residencies, as a Loghaven Fellow, a Fabrication Residency at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and an Artist Residency at the Digital Stone Project. 

Song has held faculty positions at University of Toronto, Harvard GSD, Northeastern, and Wentworth Institute of Technology, where she has taught undergraduate core studios, graduate thesis, option studios, and seminars in computation, AI, responsive architecture, and digital fabrication. She directs Studio Humbi Song LLC and previously worked at Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Rogers Partners, and INVIVIA. She holds a A.B. in Social Studies and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University.