Jialu HouPhD Student

Jialu Hou is an interdisciplinary designer and PhD candidate at SensiLab, Monash University, supervised by Associate Professor Rowan Page and Professor Jon McCormack. He graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Design Products, focusing on preferable futures. His design work has received wide recognition, including the Red Dot Design Concept Award, the K-Design Gold Award and the Helen Hamlyn Design Award, and has been exhibited internationally in countries such as the UK, China, Singapore and Italy. Jialu’s current research explores Proximal Symbiosis as a speculative design space for relationships in which living beings and lively AI artefacts coexist closely, investigating design possibilities, emerging hybrid experiences and relational changes, and future ways of living.