Yasaman Sheri

Yasaman Sheri is a Creative Director, Interface Designer and Researcher working with emerging technologies to explore possible and becoming futures. Her investigations focus on the interaction of humans, living things and machines, exploring many forms of sensing, synthetic biology, aesthetics of simulation, perception systems and augmentation of body, objects and ecologies. Yasaman is Faculty at Copenhagen Institute for Interaction Design (CIID) and previously professor and critic at graduate industrial design program of Rhode Island School of Design. She has lead Core Interface Design for the first consumer level Augmented Reality Operating System Head-Mounted Display: Microsoft Hololens & Windows Holographic. She’s also worked with NASA Ames Research Center, Art Center Collage, Toyota, Yeast Lab, Google (X), Ginkgo Bioworks, IKEA’s research & design studio SPACE10 and many more. Currently she is the Principal Investigator and founder of Synthetic Ecologies Lab at Serpentine Galleries R&D creating platforms, tools & spaces that support critical & artistic inquiry in to Life Sciences. She is also Senior Director of Design, leading the Operating System & Platform teams at Magic Leap.