Chronology
2026
NeurIPS Creative AI In submission: Dreaming Objects
HPI x MIT $100K Funding
LUMA Arles Foundation $25K Funding
🖇️ DIS 2026 Student Design Competition → Li, Y.L., Kuang, Q., Arslan, P., Wang, Y., Tangible Co-Ideation: Designing Embodied Prompting for Creative Thinking with Large Language Models
🖇️ DIS 2026 pictorial → Algargoosh, A., Noh, H., Li, Y.L., Xiao, X., Ishii, H. (2026) Sonic Portal: Designing Interactive Soundscapes for Shared Memory and Community Connection.
🖇️ DIS 2026 pictorial→ Wakkary, R., Wun, T., Thu, L., Sakib, N., Mangat. M., Li, Y. L., Celik. A. (2026) Exploring the Pluralities of More-than-Human Biographies Through Speculative Maps
🖇️ CHI 2026 Public Favorite Nomination Demo → Li, Y.L., Kuang, Q., Xiao, X., Labrune, J.B., Ishii, H. (2026) Co-Ideation Across Time
🖇️ CHI 2026 → Li, Y.L., Kuang, Q., Xiao, X., Labrune, J.B., Ishii, H. (2026) Co-Ideation Across Time: Revitalizing Legacy Design Sketchnotes with Conversational AI Agents to Foster Intergenerational Collaboration
🏆 MIT Hardmode Hackathon Winner
2025
Jury Member at Mid-term Crit at Design Investigations
Jury Member at AI& Robotics @Bangkok
Berlin Science Week Workshop - From Waste to Wearables: Speculative Design Workshop on More-Than-Human Sensing
🏆 AI Creative Future Awards “Large Language Writer”
🏆 Ars Electronica STARTS Prize 2025 Nomination "Large Language Writer - How will we write in the future?" was nominated as STARTS Prize and will be exhibited at Ars Electronica 2025.
🖇️ NeurIPS 2025 Creative AI Track→ Kuang. Q., Li. L., Huang. L., (2025) Pocket Ink - a hyper-individualized tangible card game platform in the Age of AI
🖇️ UIST 2025 full paper → Li, L., Kubusova, V., Babatain, W., Labrune, JB., Ishii, H. (2026). BioLIG: functionalizing biocomposites with laser-induced graphene
🖇️ CHI 2025 Honorable Mention full paper → X. Xiao, H. Noh, A. Lefevre, L. Li, Holly McKee, A. Alargosh, H. Ishii: ReMirrorFugue: Examining the emotional experience of presence and illusory communications across time
2024
Miami Design Week: Liminal Cycles - interactive bio-based Installation, commissioned by Crafting Plasti!cs and worked on technical implementation of interaction design
Brute Force, film essay by Felix Lenz on Terraforming through Technology. I worked on the set design, and the film is now broadcast on ORF (Austrian National Public. Broadcaster)
🖇️ PRESENCE JOURNAL → H. Ishii, D. Pillis, P. Pataranutaporn, X. Xiao, H. Noh, L. Li, A. Alargoosh, Jb Labrune: TeleAbsence - A vision of afterlife telepresence
2023 - MIT Media Lab
⭐ Moved to Cambridge, MA to study at the Tangible Media Group, MediaLab, MIT
📸 Feature in a Dezeen article.
🏆 Fulbright Scholar of 2023 and currently in the application process for a graduate study in the US.
2022 - graduating and ready for more
“Interspecies Play” continues to travel to Shenzhen Biennale or Urbanism/Architecture (UABB) with the support of the fantastic team of Het Nieuwe Instituut.
🏆 “Interspecies Play” exhibited in the Netherlands Pavilion as part of the 23rd International Triennale Milan and the Pavilion was awarded with Golden Bee for best exhibition.
“Dumpling Tour” commissioned by Vienna Design Week 2022 to give an insight into the Austro-Chinese community in the focus district Mariahilf
“Navigational Superpowers” shown at Vienna Design Week 2022 and featured in orf.at
Studio Assistant at Studio Dankl working on prototyping and concepts for Co-Working.
2021 - movies and northern lights
“Dear Satellite” screened at Nordic Youth Festival in Tromso, Norway and I felt honoured to be invited to travel there in person and see the my movie on the big screen.
“Talking House” was realised with the support of the Gepäcksausgabe Residency in Glarus, Switzerland
Co-curated and designed the exhibition “The Ideal Eating Experience” with Studio Dankl
“Dear Satellite” screened at Brooklyn Sci-Fi Film Festival, New York
⭐ Moving for 5 month to live inside the artic circle for an exchange study at University of Lapland, Department Arctic Design, learnt wonderful group of people all sharing the motto “Live your life on speed mode”
2020 - pandemic year
🏆 Leichte Muh packaging design competition, Top 8
🏆 Won the competition “Stromkilometer” and invited to design the Highschool Graduation present for Schulschiff
📸 “Hydroponics with Lucy” exhibited at Subscribe Climate Care at MAK Museum of applied arts and featured in Standard
2019 - participatory design
🏆 “Alsergrund im Schaukasten” also exhibited at Vienna Design Week and won the “Erste Bank Mehrwert Prize”
“Credit Criminals” exhibited at Vienna Design Week
🏆 Awarded the “U19 Golden Nica” for the set Design of the Mini Series “Dschungel”
“Illegal Rain” became part of the permanent exhibition at Design Labor MAK, Museum für angewandte Kunst
2018 -
🏆 “Illegal Rain” exhibited at London Design Biennale in Somerset House and representing the Austrian Pavillon
