Designing with Diverse Intelligence: Interfaces, Agential Materials, and Ingressing Minds

The conversation explores intersections of biology, art, architecture, and design, focusing on regeneration, cognition, and agency. It emphasizes a shift from anthropocentric perspectives to designing environments that collaborate with diverse intelligence: biological, synthetic, and more-than-human. Topics include unconventional embodiment, polycomputing, creative reinterpretation, platonic spaces, and the role of storytelling as shared purpose. Examples from bioengineering and architecture illustrate how living systems and built environments can act as adaptive, participatory agents. The dialogue envisions environments of co-creation, merging biological processes and technological systems into dynamic, participatory, and regenerative ecosystems.